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John Fletcher is recorded at 148 Leadenhall Street, London from 1868-1872.
JOHN FLETCHER NO. 2595;
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A mid-Victorian mahogany eight day full-plate marine chronometer
John Fletcher No. 2595;
The silvered dial signed and numbered John Fletcher, Maker to the Admiralty, 148, Leadenhall St. London 2595, Roman hour numerals, outer minute chapter with Arabic five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold hand, full-plate movement with multi-toothed great wheel to fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring with six-and-a-half turns, spring detent (replacement) with steel locking pallet, brass bowl (numbered 2595), gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box, the middle section with inset bone plaque inscribed John Fletcher 148 Leadenhall St. London 2595, flush recessed brass handles
102 mm. dial diam., box 205 mm. sq.
John Fletcher No. 2595;
The silvered dial signed and numbered John Fletcher, Maker to the Admiralty, 148, Leadenhall St. London 2595, Roman hour numerals, outer minute chapter with Arabic five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold hand, full-plate movement with multi-toothed great wheel to fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring with six-and-a-half turns, spring detent (replacement) with steel locking pallet, brass bowl (numbered 2595), gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box, the middle section with inset bone plaque inscribed John Fletcher 148 Leadenhall St. London 2595, flush recessed brass handles
102 mm. dial diam., box 205 mm. sq.