A 19th Century two-day marine chronometer by John Poole of London, the silvered dial signed and numbered John Poole Maker to the Admiralty 57 Fenchurch St. London 3670, roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, brass bowl numbered 3670, gimballed in brass-bound three tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the middle section with inset ivory plaque inscribed Sold by B.R. Hennesy, 5 Wind Street, Swansea, the top lid with applied ivory plaque inscribed Chinese destroyer 'Hai Loong' Captured by H.M.S.'Fame' Taÿku 17th June 1900, the box resting on a recessed mahogany plinth base, circa 1865 - the box 18 cm square

细节

A 19th Century two-day marine chronometer by John Poole of London, the silvered dial signed and numbered John Poole Maker to the Admiralty 57 Fenchurch St. London 3670, roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, brass bowl numbered 3670, gimballed in brass-bound three tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the middle section with inset ivory plaque inscribed Sold by B.R. Hennesy, 5 Wind Street, Swansea, the top lid with applied ivory plaque inscribed Chinese destroyer 'Hai Loong' Captured by H.M.S.'Fame' Taÿku 17th June 1900, the box resting on a recessed mahogany plinth base, circa 1865 - the box 18 cm square

拍品专文

It is understood that this chronometer was captured from a Chinese destroyer by Lieut. Roger Keyes (later admiral of the fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover) during a daring action in the Boxer revolt, 1900. (Full details are given in the book by C. Aspinal-Oglander, Roger Keyes - A Biography, London, 1951) See also lot 26.

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