JOHN CARTER NO. 329
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An Early Victorian Mahogany Two-Day small Marine Chronometer
John Carter No. 329
The silvered dial signed John Carter, Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London. 329, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold spade hands, the top-plate signed John Carter Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London No.329, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with wedge-shaped heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 329, three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the centre section with vacant bone roundel, the top lid with vacant brass plaque.
70 mm. dial diam., 134 mm. sq. box
John Carter No. 329
The silvered dial signed John Carter, Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London. 329, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold spade hands, the top-plate signed John Carter Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London No.329, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with wedge-shaped heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 329, three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the centre section with vacant bone roundel, the top lid with vacant brass plaque.
70 mm. dial diam., 134 mm. sq. box