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JOHN BLISS NO. 2999; CIRCA 1880
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An American two-day marine chronometer
John Bliss No. 2999; circa 1880
The silvered dial signed Bliss & Co New York No. 2999, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, repaired spring foot detent and now with steel locking pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass bound rosewood box, the middle section with applied rectangular mother-of-pearl plaque inscribed John Bliss & Co 2999 New York, external brass drop handles
97 mm. dial diam., box 185 mm. sq.
John Bliss No. 2999; circa 1880
The silvered dial signed Bliss & Co New York No. 2999, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, repaired spring foot detent and now with steel locking pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass bound rosewood box, the middle section with applied rectangular mother-of-pearl plaque inscribed John Bliss & Co 2999 New York, external brass drop handles
97 mm. dial diam., box 185 mm. sq.