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A Victorian rosewood and brass-mounted two-day marine chronometer, second half 19th Century
The three-tier box with recessed side handles and with replaced mother-of-pearl plaque to the front, brass bowl and gimbal, 100 mm. diameter dial with 56-hour up/down ring, gold main hands and blued steel subsidiaries, signed PARKINSON & FRODSHAM/CHANGE ALLEY LONDON/3738, the reversed chain fusee movement with spot-finished plates, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with cylindrical compensation weights to bimetallic balance with blued steel helical spring, maintaining power repeat signature to top plate -- 7 in. (17.5 cm.) square, the box; tipsy key, box key
The three-tier box with recessed side handles and with replaced mother-of-pearl plaque to the front, brass bowl and gimbal, 100 mm. diameter dial with 56-hour up/down ring, gold main hands and blued steel subsidiaries, signed PARKINSON & FRODSHAM/CHANGE ALLEY LONDON/3738, the reversed chain fusee movement with spot-finished plates, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with cylindrical compensation weights to bimetallic balance with blued steel helical spring, maintaining power repeat signature to top plate -- 7 in. (17.5 cm.) square, the box; tipsy key, box key
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