MID 19TH CENTURY
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a two-day marine chronometer
Mid 19th Century
The silvered dial signed SIMPSON & ROBERTS 34 STRAND STT, LIVERPOOL No. 1/561, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial (lacking hand) and up-and-down dial with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement (lacking escapewheel), cut bi-metallic 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 with inset bone ivory plaque to front of middle section inscribed SIMPSON & ROBERTS 34 Strand Street, Liverpool 1/561, flush recessed carrying handles
dial 9.6cm. diam.; box 17.7cm. square
Mid 19th Century
The silvered dial signed SIMPSON & ROBERTS 34 STRAND STT, LIVERPOOL No. 1/561, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial (lacking hand) and up-and-down dial with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement (lacking escapewheel), cut bi-metallic 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 with inset bone ivory plaque to front of middle section inscribed SIMPSON & ROBERTS 34 Strand Street, Liverpool 1/561, flush recessed carrying handles
dial 9.6cm. diam.; box 17.7cm. square