A Victorian rosewood two-day marine chronometer, Albert Eppner & Co., Berlin & Lahn, No 157, signed and numbered frosted silvered dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hands, movement with cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, helical balance spring, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in three-tier rosewood box with brass stringing, the lower section with circular bone ivory plaque inscribed Eppner, the middle section with rectangular mother o'pearl plaque inscribed Nugent Wells, London & Newport -- 95mm dial dia 180mm sq box

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A Victorian rosewood two-day marine chronometer, Albert Eppner & Co., Berlin & Lahn, No 157, signed and numbered frosted silvered dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hands, movement with cut bimetallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, helical balance spring, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in three-tier rosewood box with brass stringing, the lower section with circular bone ivory plaque inscribed Eppner, the middle section with rectangular mother o'pearl plaque inscribed Nugent Wells, London & Newport -- 95mm dial dia 180mm sq box
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