DENT, NO. 49600. CIRCA 1897

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An Edwardian mahogany eight-day marine chronometer
Dent, No. 49600. Circa 1897
The silvered dial signed Dent. (within a triangle) Maker to the QUEEN 61. STRAND & 4. ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON. No.49600, Roman numerals, blued steel hour and minute hands, subsidiary up-and-down and seconds dials with blued steel hands, the movement with spotted plates, mainframe carrying reverse fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train, Earnshaw escapement, Dent's staple balance with gilt-brass cross-arm carrying the mean time screws, polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 600 with spring-loaded percussion cap cover to key hole in the base, gimballed in a plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the mid section with circular enamel plaque signed Dent (within a triangle) 49600 and with vacant brass cartouche inset to the top lid with full size Dent & Co. trade label set to its inside
120 dial diam., 220 sq. the box

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Lot Essay

The present chronometer was supplied and fitted with an extra key which fits the canon pinion to adjust the hands. This is most unusual, normally the chronometer is provided only with a winding key which is purposely too big for the canon pinion in order to prevent unwanted adjustment of the hands. It seems likely that No. 49600 was supplied as a 'special', perhaps for a private vessel.

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