E. I. DENT No.2044: A mid Victorian two-day marine chronometer, circa 1845, the silvered dial signed Dent, London, chronometer maker to the Queen No. 2044 with Roman hour chapters, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, cut bi-metallic balance with blued inside surface, segmental heat compensation weights with 'fine adjustment' brass screw on outer face, blued steel helical balance spring, fine adjustment screw to top balance spring stud, brass bowl and gimbal, plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop-handles, inside centre section with mercury thermometer engraved Fahrt and Reau, white disc to front inscribed Dent 2044, the inside of top lid with track label signed E.I.Dent No.82 Strand & 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London

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E. I. DENT No.2044: A mid Victorian two-day marine chronometer, circa 1845, the silvered dial signed Dent, London, chronometer maker to the Queen No. 2044 with Roman hour chapters, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, cut bi-metallic balance with blued inside surface, segmental heat compensation weights with 'fine adjustment' brass screw on outer face, blued steel helical balance spring, fine adjustment screw to top balance spring stud, brass bowl and gimbal, plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop-handles, inside centre section with mercury thermometer engraved Fahrt and Reau, white disc to front inscribed Dent 2044, the inside of top lid with track label signed E.I.Dent No.82 Strand & 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London
Dial diameter: 95mm
Box: 158mm square

Lot Essay

This chronometer can be accurately dated to circa 1845 from numbers 2091 and 2092 which have confirmed dates of 1845.
No.2035 was purchased by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in 1848

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