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AN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Dent, No. 59023, circa 1919
The silvered dial signed DENT (within a triangle), Maker to the KING, 61 STRAND 4 ROYAL EXCHANGE. LONDON No. 59023, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds up-and-down dials, blue steel hands (later minute hand), main frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, the centre section with bone disc inscribed DENT 59023, brass bowl, gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box, flush recessed brass handles, inside the top lid a full size trade lable of E. DENT & CO. LTD., the centre section with bone ivory disc inscribed DENT 59023
112 mm. dial diam., 220 mm. sq. box
Dent, No. 59023, circa 1919
The silvered dial signed DENT (within a triangle), Maker to the KING, 61 STRAND 4 ROYAL EXCHANGE. LONDON No. 59023, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds up-and-down dials, blue steel hands (later minute hand), main frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, the centre section with bone disc inscribed DENT 59023, brass bowl, gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box, flush recessed brass handles, inside the top lid a full size trade lable of E. DENT & CO. LTD., the centre section with bone ivory disc inscribed DENT 59023
112 mm. dial diam., 220 mm. sq. box