拍品 52
52
A Two-Day standard size marine chronometer, the silvered dial signed J.W.RAY & Co 8 Canning Place, Liverpool No119 Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers, gole hour and minute hands, subsiduary seconds and state of wind dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent, cut bi-metallic balance, blued steel helical spring, brass bowl and gimbal in brass bound mahogany box (locking top lid, possibly not original but contemporary) 7½in.(19cm)wide

细节
A Two-Day standard size marine chronometer, the silvered dial signed J.W.RAY & Co 8 Canning Place, Liverpool No119 Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers, gole hour and minute hands, subsiduary seconds and state of wind dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent, cut bi-metallic balance, blued steel helical spring, brass bowl and gimbal in brass bound mahogany box (locking top lid, possibly not original but contemporary) 7½in.(19cm)wide

拍品专文

This chronometer was made for J.N.Ray by Thomas Mercer (c.1894: their serial No.5567), J.W.Ray were in business at Canning Place 1893-1899