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OWEN OWENS NO. 811; CIRCA 1890
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A late Victorian two-day marine chronometer
Owen Owens No. 811; circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Owen Owens 6 South Castle St. Liverpool 811, Roman hour numerals, yellow metal hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier mahogany box with later lid, the bottom and middle section brass bound, flush recessed handles
98 mm. dial diam., box 183 mm. sq.
Owen Owens No. 811; circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Owen Owens 6 South Castle St. Liverpool 811, Roman hour numerals, yellow metal hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier mahogany box with later lid, the bottom and middle section brass bound, flush recessed handles
98 mm. dial diam., box 183 mm. sq.