A Victorian mahogany two-day marine chronometer Morris & Tobias. 31 Minories, London. 833, circa 1830 The silvered dial signed and numbered Morris & Tobias. 31 Minories, London. 833 , Roman hour numerals with gold spade hour and minute hands, blued steel hands for subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent, with jewelled locking stone, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, similar signature engraved on the top-plate, similarly numbered brass bowl with gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with vacant brass plaque to the top lid and two vacant bone ivory discs to the front, external brass drop handles 89 mm. dial diam., 163 mm. sq. box
A Victorian mahogany two-day marine chronometer Morris & Tobias. 31 Minories, London. 833, circa 1830 The silvered dial signed and numbered Morris & Tobias. 31 Minories, London. 833 , Roman hour numerals with gold spade hour and minute hands, blued steel hands for subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent, with jewelled locking stone, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, similar signature engraved on the top-plate, similarly numbered brass bowl with gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with vacant brass plaque to the top lid and two vacant bone ivory discs to the front, external brass drop handles 89 mm. dial diam., 163 mm. sq. box
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