An Early Victorian Mahogany Two-Day small Marine Chronometer

JOHN CARTER NO. 329

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An Early Victorian Mahogany Two-Day small Marine Chronometer
John Carter No. 329
The silvered dial signed John Carter, Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London. 329, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold spade hands, the top-plate signed John Carter Maker to the Royal Navy, Cornhill, London No.329, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with wedge-shaped heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 329, three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles, the centre section with vacant bone roundel, the top lid with vacant brass plaque.
70 mm. dial diam., 134 mm. sq. box