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BROCKBANK, ATKINS & MOORE, LONDON NO. 2121. CIRCA 1895
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A good Victorian brass-bound mahognay two-day marine chronometer
Brockbank, Atkins & Moore, London No. 2121. Circa 1895
The silvered dial signed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore London No. 2121, Roman hour numerals, outer minute chapters with Arabic five minute inter-markers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw-type escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the bottom section with inset bone ivory disc inscribed 2121, the centre section with one inscribed BROCKBANK, ATKINS & MOORE, flush recessed brass handles
7¼in. (18.2cm.) square box
Brockbank, Atkins & Moore, London No. 2121. Circa 1895
The silvered dial signed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore London No. 2121, Roman hour numerals, outer minute chapters with Arabic five minute inter-markers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw-type escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the bottom section with inset bone ivory disc inscribed 2121, the centre section with one inscribed BROCKBANK, ATKINS & MOORE, flush recessed brass handles
7¼in. (18.2cm.) square box
Provenance
Christie's, London, 2 July, 1997, lot 42
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