A French mahogany two-day marine chronometer Henri Motel, No. 138, circa 1835 The frosted silver dial signed and numbered Hri Motel. Hger de la Marine Rle N 138 DÉPÔT DE LA MARINE , Roman hour numerals, blued steel Breguet hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement with 18,000 'quick train', the pillar-plate with substantial brass cock inscribed N 138 HRI. MOTEL. HGER DE LA MARINE RLE and carrying fusee, barrel and centre wheel pivot, the fusee with Harrison's maintaining power and square with finger stop-work and bevelled gear for external winding through top of the bowl (at III), to the opposite side of the above assembly three brass cylindrical pillars supporting three-level sub-frame assembly carring fifteen tooth escapewheel with drilled through tips, Motel pivoted spring detent with jewelled locking stone, mounted above the sub-frame assembly with conical grey-steel finish pillars a brass plate with hollow centre above which is mounted Motel four-arm cut bimetallic balance each with shaped heat compensation weights and white metal mean time screws, conical blued steel balance spring , above this a top-plate with hollow centre carrying top balance spring stud and balance top pivot jewel with hemi-spherical gold cap, brass drum bowl with sliding cover to external winding square, contained in gimballed green velvet lined outer bowl from the centre of the bottom projects a convex brass assembly which, via a knurled locking arm control in the box locks the bowl and gimbal, two-tier plain Continental box, the top with sliding cover to viewing port inset with brass diamond shaped plaque inscribed N 138 , brass Motel tipsy key numbered 154 80 mm. dial diam., 160 mm. wide box
A French mahogany two-day marine chronometer Henri Motel, No. 138, circa 1835 The frosted silver dial signed and numbered Hri Motel. Hger de la Marine Rle N 138 DÉPÔT DE LA MARINE , Roman hour numerals, blued steel Breguet hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement with 18,000 'quick train', the pillar-plate with substantial brass cock inscribed N 138 HRI. MOTEL. HGER DE LA MARINE RLE and carrying fusee, barrel and centre wheel pivot, the fusee with Harrison's maintaining power and square with finger stop-work and bevelled gear for external winding through top of the bowl (at III), to the opposite side of the above assembly three brass cylindrical pillars supporting three-level sub-frame assembly carring fifteen tooth escapewheel with drilled through tips, Motel pivoted spring detent with jewelled locking stone, mounted above the sub-frame assembly with conical grey-steel finish pillars a brass plate with hollow centre above which is mounted Motel four-arm cut bimetallic balance each with shaped heat compensation weights and white metal mean time screws, conical blued steel balance spring , above this a top-plate with hollow centre carrying top balance spring stud and balance top pivot jewel with hemi-spherical gold cap, brass drum bowl with sliding cover to external winding square, contained in gimballed green velvet lined outer bowl from the centre of the bottom projects a convex brass assembly which, via a knurled locking arm control in the box locks the bowl and gimbal, two-tier plain Continental box, the top with sliding cover to viewing port inset with brass diamond shaped plaque inscribed N 138 , brass Motel tipsy key numbered 154 80 mm. dial diam., 160 mm. wide box
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