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Geneva, May 10, 2009
LOT 310
Over-sized 8-Day Marine Chronometer Tallibart, London, No. 449. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1850. Very fine and very rare, extra-large, 8-day going mahoganycased marine chronometer with power-reserve indication and ratchet key.
CHF 20,000 - 30,000
USD 17,000 - 26,000 / EUR 13,000 - 20,000
C. Three-tier brass-bound mahogany box, the second tier glazed and set with an ivory number plaque, the base with brass flush handles, gimballed brass bowl with screw-down bezel and convex glass. D. Silvered with Islamic numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds at 6, power-reserve indiction at 12. Gold spade hands. M. 88 mm., half-plate, brass with spotted decoration, ring-turned pillars, blued steel screws, reverse fusee and chain, Harrison?s maintaining power, brass sub-frame for the escapement, Earnshaw-type, spring detent with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature compensation weights, meantime adjustment nuts, free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone. Dial signed. Dim. 23 x 23.5 x 23 cm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-6-01 |
Good Slightly oxidized HANDS Original |
Notes
This chronometer is recorded in: Chronometer Makers of The World, Tony Mercer, N.A.G. Press Ltd, 1991.