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A Victorian mahogany and brass-mounted two-day marine chronometer
The later three-tier box with drop-down side handles and two plaques to the front, brass bowl and gimbal, 95 mm. diameter silvered dial with 56-hour up/down ring, gold main and up/down hands, blued steel seconds hand, signed Rich.d Hornby/Liverpool No.1107., reversed chain fusee movement with spot-finished plates, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with cylindrical compensation weights to cut bimetallic balance with blued steel helical spring, maintaining power, third quarter 19th Century with later purpose-made box -- 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) square, the box; tipsy key, box key
The later three-tier box with drop-down side handles and two plaques to the front, brass bowl and gimbal, 95 mm. diameter silvered dial with 56-hour up/down ring, gold main and up/down hands, blued steel seconds hand, signed Rich.d Hornby/Liverpool No.1107., reversed chain fusee movement with spot-finished plates, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with cylindrical compensation weights to cut bimetallic balance with blued steel helical spring, maintaining power, third quarter 19th Century with later purpose-made box -- 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) square, the box; tipsy key, box key
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