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A MID-19TH CENTURY TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY A. WALKER, NO 654, CIRCA 1865
The 10cm. silvered dial signed and numbered A. Walker, 72 South Castle St. LIVERPOOL, No.654, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance with heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal in rose wood three-tier box, the middle ssection with makers details engraved on rectangular bone plaque, with recessed brass handles, with rating certificate from John Parkes & Sons, Liverpool, dated April 13th 1922 and outer guard box -- 7in. (18cm.) square
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The 10cm. silvered dial signed and numbered A. Walker, 72 South Castle St. LIVERPOOL, No.654, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance with heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal in rose wood three-tier box, the middle ssection with makers details engraved on rectangular bone plaque, with recessed brass handles, with rating certificate from John Parkes & Sons, Liverpool, dated April 13th 1922 and outer guard box -- 7in. (18cm.) square
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This lot has a revised estimate of £3,000-4,000