An Edwardian two-day Royal Observatory mahogany Marine Chronometer with staple balance

DENT NO. 50952; CIRCA 1904

细节

An Edwardian two-day Royal Observatory mahogany Marine Chronometer with staple balance
Dent No. 50952; circa 1904
The silvered dial signed Dent Maker to the Queen 61 Strand & 4 Royal Exchange London 50952, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial within it the Government mark, up-and-down dial, all hands of blued steel, top-plate incised with the Government mark, Earnshaw escapement Dent bimetallic staple balance, polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 952, gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box (later top-lid), the middle section with inset bone disc inscribed Dent (within a triangle) 50952 TWO DAYS and with the Government mark, external Dent format brass carrying handles.
98 mm dial diam., box 185 mm sq.

拍品专文

Royal Greenwich Observatory records state that this chronometer was issued in 1927 to the battleship HMS Nelson.
The Nelson was a battleship of 33,950 tons displacement. Her main armament was nine 16-inch guns all of which were grouped and pointing forwards. It was popularly believed that both she and her sister-ship Rodney were designed like this because they would always be chasing their enemy - never running away from them! They were the two most distinctive 20th century British warships.