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The frame, bowl and winding key are all numbered 1909.
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A VICTORIAN TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH STAPLE BALANCE
Dent, No. 1909, circa 1850
The silvered dial signed and numbered DENT LONDON Chronometer Maker to the QUEEN, No. 1909, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hands, Earnshaw escapement, Dent's Staple Balance with brass cross-arm carrying the mean time screws, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, with 'percussion cap' cover to keyhole, brass bowl gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box the middle section with a Fahrenheit mercury thermometer and on the outside a painted white disc reading DENT 1909, inside the top lid a trade label of EDWARD I. DENT, external brass drop handles
92 mm. dial diam., 160 mm. sq. box
Dent, No. 1909, circa 1850
The silvered dial signed and numbered DENT LONDON Chronometer Maker to the QUEEN, No. 1909, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hands, Earnshaw escapement, Dent's Staple Balance with brass cross-arm carrying the mean time screws, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, with 'percussion cap' cover to keyhole, brass bowl gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box the middle section with a Fahrenheit mercury thermometer and on the outside a painted white disc reading DENT 1909, inside the top lid a trade label of EDWARD I. DENT, external brass drop handles
92 mm. dial diam., 160 mm. sq. box