A standard size two-day marine chronometer the silvered dial signed and numbered 'John Poole, Maker to the Admiralty, 57 Fenchurch St. London, 4268 , Roman hour numbers, 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, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, 3-tier brass-bound mahogany box (lacking top lid) with brass external drop handles, rectangular ivory plaque to front of center section inscribed 'Sold by Alexr Bahaire, 7 Lawrence Street, Sunderland' -- 7 x 7in. (18 x 18cm.)
A standard size two-day marine chronometer the silvered dial signed and numbered 'John Poole, Maker to the Admiralty, 57 Fenchurch St. London, 4268 , Roman hour numbers, 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, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, brass bowl and gimbal, 3-tier brass-bound mahogany box (lacking top lid) with brass external drop handles, rectangular ivory plaque to front of center section inscribed 'Sold by Alexr Bahaire, 7 Lawrence Street, Sunderland' -- 7 x 7in. (18 x 18cm.)
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