Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Graham & Parkes Two-day Marine Chronometer, 45 Canning Place, Liverpool, the 4-in. silvered engraved dial signed as above, "up-down" indicator, seconds dial marked 3350, gold and blued steel hands, chain fusee, maintaining power, split two-arm bi-metallic balance with brass weight and screws, helical hairspring, spring detent escapement, in a gimbaled brass bowl, rosewood and boxwood string-inlaid box, wd. 7 x dp. 7 x ht. 7 in.
Estimate $1,500-3,000
small crack to glass, staining to dial and interior of bezel, top and bottom of case replaced.
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