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A two-day mahogany marine chronometer, James Bishopp, London, No.6484, circa 1900,
silvered dial signed and numbered James Bishopp, 20, Bunhill Row, London, 6484, Roman numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, gilt fusee movement with Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone, gimballed in brass bowl, three tier brass bound mahogany box, the middle section with signed and numbered inset circular ivory plaque, the top with an inset brass shield inscribed "Julnar" R.Y.S, flush fit handles, with an outer wooden deck box. dial diam. 10cm, box 18cm sq.
silvered dial signed and numbered James Bishopp, 20, Bunhill Row, London, 6484, Roman numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, gilt fusee movement with Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone, gimballed in brass bowl, three tier brass bound mahogany box, the middle section with signed and numbered inset circular ivory plaque, the top with an inset brass shield inscribed "Julnar" R.Y.S, flush fit handles, with an outer wooden deck box. dial diam. 10cm, box 18cm sq.
