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James Muirhead & son are recorded at 90 Buchanan Street, Glasgow 1871-1874.
JAMES MUIRHEAD, NO. 3799, CIRCA 1870
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A Victorian eight-day marine chronometer with Poole's auxiliary
James Muirhead, No. 3799, circa 1870
The silvered dial signed and numbered JAMES MUIRHEAD & SON, MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY. 90 Buchanan Strt. GLASGOW 3799, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main frame assembly carrying fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary and cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier rosewood box with brass quarter-round edging and stringing to front and top lid, the middle section with inset bone ivory plaque inscribed JAMES MUIRHEAD & SON. MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY 90 Buchanan St. GLASGOW. 3799, recessed brass handles
112 mm. dial diam., 202 mm. sq. box
James Muirhead, No. 3799, circa 1870
The silvered dial signed and numbered JAMES MUIRHEAD & SON, MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY. 90 Buchanan Strt. GLASGOW 3799, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main frame assembly carrying fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary and cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier rosewood box with brass quarter-round edging and stringing to front and top lid, the middle section with inset bone ivory plaque inscribed JAMES MUIRHEAD & SON. MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY 90 Buchanan St. GLASGOW. 3799, recessed brass handles
112 mm. dial diam., 202 mm. sq. box