Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 123

?Eight-Day Marine Chronometer? Dent, Chronometer Makers by Special Appointment to the Queen, 61, Strand & 4, Royal Exchange, London, No. 48754. Made in 1896. Very fine and very rare, mahogany, 8-day going, anti-magnetic, marine chronome ter with power-reserve indication and Dent's staple balance. Accompanied by a rachet key.

C. Three-body, mahogany wood box with brass handles, glazed upper section with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension. D. Matte silver with radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Gilt brass, two frame, with perlage decoration, going train frame with cylindrical pillars, fusée with chain and Hrarrison?s maintaining power, escapement frame with balance shield containing the Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, Dent's staple compensation balance with cylindrical weights and vertical bimetallic compensation, free-sprung helical paladium balance-spring with terminal curves, diamond end-stone. Dial and box signed, box also engraved ?H M Lange?. Diam. Bowl 145 mm. Dim. Box 23 x 20 x 20 cm.