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Details
A Victorian mahogany and brass-mounted eight-day marine chronometer, third quarter 19th century
The three-tier box with brass stud inlays to the lid and inset later bone roundel to the front inscribed DENT/1989, drop-down handles, the inside of the box with mercury thermometer with bone scale, brass gimbal and bowl stamped DENT/1989, the 4½in. (11.5cm.) diameter silvered Roman dial with up/down dial, signed in the centre DENT LONDON./Chronometer Maker, to the/QUEEN. NO.1989, subsidiary seconds ring below, blued steel spade and straight hands, the chain fusee movement with cut bimetallic balance and cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance and jewelled endstone -- 7¼in. (18cm.) square, the box
The three-tier box with brass stud inlays to the lid and inset later bone roundel to the front inscribed DENT/1989, drop-down handles, the inside of the box with mercury thermometer with bone scale, brass gimbal and bowl stamped DENT/1989, the 4½in. (11.5cm.) diameter silvered Roman dial with up/down dial, signed in the centre DENT LONDON./Chronometer Maker, to the/QUEEN. NO.1989, subsidiary seconds ring below, blued steel spade and straight hands, the chain fusee movement with cut bimetallic balance and cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance and jewelled endstone -- 7¼in. (18cm.) square, the box
Literature
Hans Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers, 1997, pp.665-6, figs.1-5.
Staeger comments that apparently only three eight day marine chronometers by E.J. Dent are known to exist.
Staeger comments that apparently only three eight day marine chronometers by E.J. Dent are known to exist.
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