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BROCKBANK & ATKINS, LONDON, NO.1636. CIRCA 1880
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A Victorian mahogany and brass-mounted eight-day marine chronometer
Brockbank & Atkins, London, No.1636. Circa 1880
BOX: three-tier with brass drop-down handles, brass gimbal and bowl with winding cover, paper LUND & BLOCKLEY/BOMBAY label to inside
DIAL: silvered and engraved, the sight ring signed P.&O.S.A.Co., signed Brockbank & Atkins/London No.1636, 8-day up/down and subsidiary seconds ring, gold hour hand, replaced minute hand, blued steel subsidiary hands
MOVEMENT: main frame with lightly spotted top plate signed Brockbank & Atkins London No.1636, four ringed pillars with blued steel screws, carrying chain and fusee, with maintaining power; tipsy key
ESCAPEMENT: on sub-assembly with chain guard, Earnshaw-type with flat strip steel spring detent, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring
190 mm. square box, 115 mm. diameter dial
Brockbank & Atkins, London, No.1636. Circa 1880
BOX: three-tier with brass drop-down handles, brass gimbal and bowl with winding cover, paper LUND & BLOCKLEY/BOMBAY label to inside
DIAL: silvered and engraved, the sight ring signed P.&O.S.A.Co., signed Brockbank & Atkins/London No.1636, 8-day up/down and subsidiary seconds ring, gold hour hand, replaced minute hand, blued steel subsidiary hands
MOVEMENT: main frame with lightly spotted top plate signed Brockbank & Atkins London No.1636, four ringed pillars with blued steel screws, carrying chain and fusee, with maintaining power; tipsy key
ESCAPEMENT: on sub-assembly with chain guard, Earnshaw-type with flat strip steel spring detent, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring
190 mm. square box, 115 mm. diameter dial
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