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An early Victorian eight-day marine chronometer
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An early Victorian eight-day marine chronometer

GANTHONY, NO. 104. CIRCA 1840

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An early Victorian eight-day marine chronometer
Ganthony, No. 104. Circa 1840
The silvered dial signed Corrected & Adjusted by JOHN POOLE 57 Fenchurch St. LONDON No. 124, the top-plate of the main-frame of the movement signed Ganthony. LONDON. No. 104, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main-frame assembly carrying fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly carrying remainder of the train, Earnshaw escapement cut bimetallic Pennington type balance, blued steel helical balance spring, dovetail detent (replacement) with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, brass bowl, later gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box, brass external drop handles
110 mm. dial diam., 200 mm. sq. box
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Lot Essay

Richard Ganthony is recorded at 49 Lombard Street, London E.C. He was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1828 and 1829. He died in 1845.
The reverse of the dial carries some repairers marks including that of Ashley & Sims. There are no signs of any alterations having been made to the inscription on the dial.

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