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A two-day marine chronometer by Johannsen
the silvered dial signed and numbered A. Johannsen & Co. Makers to the Admiralty, The Indian Govt & Royal Navies of Italy, Spain & Portugal, 149 Minories London 8744, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, cut bi-metallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, brass bowl and gimbal in plain 3-tier mahogany box (lid possibly replacement), recessed drop handles, ivory rectangular plaque (plain) to front of middle section -- 7¼in. (18cm.) square
This chronometer was made in 1920.
the silvered dial signed and numbered A. Johannsen & Co. Makers to the Admiralty, The Indian Govt & Royal Navies of Italy, Spain & Portugal, 149 Minories London 8744, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, cut bi-metallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, brass bowl and gimbal in plain 3-tier mahogany box (lid possibly replacement), recessed drop handles, ivory rectangular plaque (plain) to front of middle section -- 7¼in. (18cm.) square
This chronometer was made in 1920.