A Regency mahogany One-Day Marine Chronometer George Hornby & Son, No. 857 Circa. 1805 The silver dial signed CHRONOMETER BY JOHN PENLINGTON No. 3 PARKER STRT. LIVERPOOL No. 857 , bold Roman hour numerals within outer minute chapter with Arabic five-minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque , subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) blued steel hands, top-plate signed Ger.Hornby & Son, Liverpool No. 857 , cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent (later) with jewelled locking stone, bowl and square-section gimbal in three-tier plain mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the bottom with pierced projections on the left and right side for securing to ship's chart table. 96mm. dial diam., box 204mm.sq.
A Regency mahogany One-Day Marine Chronometer George Hornby & Son, No. 857 Circa. 1805 The silver dial signed CHRONOMETER BY JOHN PENLINGTON No. 3 PARKER STRT. LIVERPOOL No. 857 , bold Roman hour numerals within outer minute chapter with Arabic five-minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque , subsidiary seconds dial (at VI) blued steel hands, top-plate signed Ger.Hornby & Son, Liverpool No. 857 , cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent (later) with jewelled locking stone, bowl and square-section gimbal in three-tier plain mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the bottom with pierced projections on the left and right side for securing to ship's chart table. 96mm. dial diam., box 204mm.sq.
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