JOHN FLETCHER, NO. 969, CIRCA 1845
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A Victorian mahogany eight-day marine chronometer
John Fletcher, No. 969, circa 1845
The silvered dial signed J. FLETCHER 14 Chapel Street, PENTONVILLE, LONDON. MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY No. 969, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold spade hand, main-frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with semi-circular chain guard, carrying remainder of the train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone (replacement), brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the middle section with inset oval ivory plaque inscribed FLETCHER. Chapel St., Pentonville, LONDON 969, external brass drop handles
110 mm. dial diam., 210 mm. sq. box
John Fletcher, No. 969, circa 1845
The silvered dial signed J. FLETCHER 14 Chapel Street, PENTONVILLE, LONDON. MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY No. 969, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold spade hand, main-frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with semi-circular chain guard, carrying remainder of the train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone (replacement), brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the middle section with inset oval ivory plaque inscribed FLETCHER. Chapel St., Pentonville, LONDON 969, external brass drop handles
110 mm. dial diam., 210 mm. sq. box