JOESPH SEWILL NO 4824 CIRCA 1890
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A Victorian coromandel Two-day marine chronometer
Joesph Sewill No 4824 Circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Joseph Sewill 61 South Castle Street Liverpool. Maker to the Admiralty 4824 and with garter testimonial at II and XI, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold hand, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, dovetail spring detent with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier coromandel wood box with parallel brass stringing to front and top lid, the middle section with inset ivory disc (unsigned), flush recessed handles.
95mm. dial daim., 173mm. sq. box
Joesph Sewill No 4824 Circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Joseph Sewill 61 South Castle Street Liverpool. Maker to the Admiralty 4824 and with garter testimonial at II and XI, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand and up-and-down dial with gold hand, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, dovetail spring detent with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier coromandel wood box with parallel brass stringing to front and top lid, the middle section with inset ivory disc (unsigned), flush recessed handles.
95mm. dial daim., 173mm. sq. box