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A Victorian mahogany Royal Observatory two-day marine chronometer with staple balance

DENT NO. 2808. PURCHASED BY THE ROYAL NAVY IN SEPTEMBER 1867

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A Victorian mahogany Royal Observatory two-day marine chronometer with staple balance
Dent No. 2808. Purchased by the Royal Navy in September 1867
The circular silvered engraved dials signed DENT, LONDON. chronometer maker to the QUEEN. No.2808, Roman chapter ring with blued steel hands, subsidiary rings for seconds, also with blued steel hand and government arrow mark, the up-and-down sector at XII calibrated 0-56, the movement with lightly spotted plates, chain fusee and barrel, Earnshaw-type spring dettent escapement with helical steel spring to Dent's blued steel and brass staple balance, the backplate engraved with the government arrow, lacquered brass bowl stamped DENT 2808 to the interior and with Dent's hinged winding cap to the underside of the bowl, the three-tier box with circular bone plaque to the centre section engraved DENT 2808 two days and also with the government arrow mark, the inside of the top lid fitted with a label printed ISSUED FROM ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH 24 April 1917
6¾ in. sq.

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ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased July 5, 1963 from Malcolm Gardner, Otford, England.

This chronometer was issued to the Royal Navy in September 1867 and first saw service in H.M.S. Juno in 1868. It was re-issued to five further Royal Naval vessels until it was transferred to the Australian Navy in 1913. Firstly to the Bermuda in 1916 and then Lindquist in 1916. In 1917 it was 'cut off the books.'