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It is considered that this chronometer was made circa 1898, possibly by Thomas Mercer Ltd.
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AN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Brockbank Atkins & Moore, No. 2255
the silvered dial signed and numbered BROCKBANK ATKINS & MOORE. LONDON No. 2255, hour chapter with Roman numerals, outer minute chapter with Arabic five minute intermarkers, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main fraim assembly carrying reversed fusee barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly numbered 6350 with chain guard carrying remainder of train and escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 6350, gimballed in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, bone ivory disc to centre section inscribed BROCKBANK, ATIKINS & MOORE, 2255, LONDON, flush brass handle
125mm. dial diam., 208mm. sq. box
Brockbank Atkins & Moore, No. 2255
the silvered dial signed and numbered BROCKBANK ATKINS & MOORE. LONDON No. 2255, hour chapter with Roman numerals, outer minute chapter with Arabic five minute intermarkers, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main fraim assembly carrying reversed fusee barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly numbered 6350 with chain guard carrying remainder of train and escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 6350, gimballed in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, bone ivory disc to centre section inscribed BROCKBANK, ATIKINS & MOORE, 2255, LONDON, flush brass handle
125mm. dial diam., 208mm. sq. box