Inventory no. 52752 - Former Display Label
English BOX CHRONOMETER
c. 1840
Signed on dial, 'Langford 53, Quay, Bristol 1771'. Spotted plate movement of brass and stell, Earnshaw-type spring detent, bimetallic compensated balance wheel, helical blued steel spring with terminal curves. Silvered dial with subsidiary up and down dial at twelve o'clock, seconds dial at six o'clock. Gold poker minute and and spade hour hand. In brass box gimbaled in mahogany case with ivory repeating signature.