AN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER Margetts, No. 169 now converted to a mantel timepiece, the white enamel dial signed and numbered Margetts Eight Days Timekeeper 169 , Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers, subsidiary seconds dial at II, blued steel hands, full-plate movement with steel baluster pillars, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic 'Z' balance set between the plates with circular heat compensation weights, large escape wheel with twenty teeth and six crossings, spring foot detent of delicate proportions with jewelled locking stone, in skin covered brass bowl, bezel with bayonet fitting, the whole mounted on a mahogany plinth base 120mm. dial diam., 210mm. high
AN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER Margetts, No. 169 now converted to a mantel timepiece, the white enamel dial signed and numbered Margetts Eight Days Timekeeper 169 , Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers, subsidiary seconds dial at II, blued steel hands, full-plate movement with steel baluster pillars, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic 'Z' balance set between the plates with circular heat compensation weights, large escape wheel with twenty teeth and six crossings, spring foot detent of delicate proportions with jewelled locking stone, in skin covered brass bowl, bezel with bayonet fitting, the whole mounted on a mahogany plinth base 120mm. dial diam., 210mm. high
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