A Victorian mahogany Royal Greenwich Observatory Two-Day Marine Chronometer John Parkes & Sons, No.3917. Circa 1900 The silvered dial signed and numbered JOHN PARKES & SONS 11 St. George's Crescent, LIVERPOOL 3917,MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY , Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary up-and-down and seconds dials with blue steel hands, the seconds dial inscribed 3917 and with the Government Mark, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the middle section inset with bone disc inscribed with the Government Mark and on the inside the issue label of H.M. CHRONOMETER DEPOT. BRADFORD-ON-AVON dated 8th July 1944 , with flush recessed brass handles 105mm. dial diam. box 180mm.sq.
A Victorian mahogany Royal Greenwich Observatory Two-Day Marine Chronometer John Parkes & Sons, No.3917. Circa 1900 The silvered dial signed and numbered JOHN PARKES & SONS 11 St. George's Crescent, LIVERPOOL 3917,MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY , Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary up-and-down and seconds dials with blue steel hands, the seconds dial inscribed 3917 and with the Government Mark, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the middle section inset with bone disc inscribed with the Government Mark and on the inside the issue label of H.M. CHRONOMETER DEPOT. BRADFORD-ON-AVON dated 8th July 1944 , with flush recessed brass handles 105mm. dial diam. box 180mm.sq.
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