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This chronometer was manufactured in 1906.
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A TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Dobbie McInnes Ltd., Glasgow
the silvered dial signed and numbered Dobbie McInnes Ltd., Glasgow Greenock, So. Shields, & London 5/4327, Makers to The Admiralty, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsdidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, three tier plain mahogany box, ivory rectangular plaque to front of middle section inscribed Dobbie McInnes Ltd 5/4327, London and inside with trade label Soc. An. Riccardo Ferro, Genova, brass external drop handles
95mm. dial diam.
Dobbie McInnes Ltd., Glasgow
the silvered dial signed and numbered Dobbie McInnes Ltd., Glasgow Greenock, So. Shields, & London 5/4327, Makers to The Admiralty, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsdidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, three tier plain mahogany box, ivory rectangular plaque to front of middle section inscribed Dobbie McInnes Ltd 5/4327, London and inside with trade label Soc. An. Riccardo Ferro, Genova, brass external drop handles
95mm. dial diam.