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A Victorian eight-day marine chronometer
Henry Frodsham, No. 2047, circa 1845
The silvered dial signed Henry Frodsham, 40 Castle Street. LIVERPOOL No. 2047, Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, full-plate eight day movement, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring the top coil pinned to 'gallows' cock assembly, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, the movement positioned via three vertical screws set in the top of the brass bowl with associated springs and three corresponding holes in the dial-plate, gimballed in three-tier brass bound mahogany box, the middle section with inset shaped bone ivory plaque inscribed Henry Frodsham. 40 Castle Street. LIVERPOOL., the bottom section with inset bone ivory disc, external brass drop handles
100 mm. dial diam., 188 mm. sq. box
