Lot Essay
William Reid is recorded at Ball Alley post 1820. This chronometer is considered to be circa 1825.
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A SMALL ONE-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Reid, Ball Alley, No. 1840
the silvered dial signed and numbered Reid. Ball Alley LOMBARD ST., London 1840, Roman hour numerals, gold minute and fleur-de-lys hour hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, small size movement (48mm. diam.), 18000 count quick train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, spring steel dovetail detent to side of banking block, jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 1840 with butterfly winding assembly, gimballed in three-tier plain mahogany box the centre section with bone ivory disc inscribed 1840, external brass drop handles
61mm. dial diam., 116mm. sq. box
Reid, Ball Alley, No. 1840
the silvered dial signed and numbered Reid. Ball Alley LOMBARD ST., London 1840, Roman hour numerals, gold minute and fleur-de-lys hour hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, small size movement (48mm. diam.), 18000 count quick train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, spring steel dovetail detent to side of banking block, jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 1840 with butterfly winding assembly, gimballed in three-tier plain mahogany box the centre section with bone ivory disc inscribed 1840, external brass drop handles
61mm. dial diam., 116mm. sq. box