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ASMUS JOHANNSEN & CO., LONDON, NO. 4911. CIRCA 1900
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A Victorian mahogany, brass-bound and mounted two-day marine chronometer
Asmus Johannsen & Co., London, No. 4911. Circa 1900
BOX: three-tier box with recessed brass side handles, the central section with bone plaque inscribed Earl of Zetland, interior with paper servicing label for Bristol/Sept 1916, brass bowl and gimbal, bowl numbered 3911; box key
DIAL: silvered and signed A.Johannsen & Co.,MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, THE INDIAN GOV.T & ROYAL NAVIES OF/ Italy, Spain, & Portugal./149 Minories,London., 56-hour up/down ring at XII and subsidiary seconds at VI, this numbered 4911 to its centre, gold hour and minute hands and blued steel subsidiary hands
MOVEMENT: spot-finished plates, chain fusee with maintaining power
ESCAPEMENT: Earnshaw type with spring detent, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights and palladium helical balance spring; tipsy key
178 mm. square box, 98 mm. diameter dial
Asmus Johannsen & Co., London, No. 4911. Circa 1900
BOX: three-tier box with recessed brass side handles, the central section with bone plaque inscribed Earl of Zetland, interior with paper servicing label for Bristol/Sept 1916, brass bowl and gimbal, bowl numbered 3911; box key
DIAL: silvered and signed A.Johannsen & Co.,MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, THE INDIAN GOV.T & ROYAL NAVIES OF/ Italy, Spain, & Portugal./149 Minories,London., 56-hour up/down ring at XII and subsidiary seconds at VI, this numbered 4911 to its centre, gold hour and minute hands and blued steel subsidiary hands
MOVEMENT: spot-finished plates, chain fusee with maintaining power
ESCAPEMENT: Earnshaw type with spring detent, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights and palladium helical balance spring; tipsy key
178 mm. square box, 98 mm. diameter dial
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium