A two-day marine chronometer, D. McGregor & Co No. K/2102, the silvered dial signed D. McGregor & Co. Greenock. Glasgow & Liverpool No. K/2102. Makers to the Admiralty, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, Kullberg reversal spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in plain three-tier brass strung mahogany box (lacking top lid), flash recessed brass handles, bone ivory plaque inscribed D. McGregor & Co. Makers to the Admniralty. Greenock. Glasgow & Liverpool No.K/2102, rate certificate of Alf. Willings & Co. date 14th Mar 1960, with outer guard box, dial dia -- 4 7/8in. (9.8cm.), box -- 7in. (17.8cm.) wide

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A two-day marine chronometer, D. McGregor & Co No. K/2102, the silvered dial signed D. McGregor & Co. Greenock. Glasgow & Liverpool No. K/2102. Makers to the Admiralty, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, reversed fusee, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, Kullberg reversal spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in plain three-tier brass strung mahogany box (lacking top lid), flash recessed brass handles, bone ivory plaque inscribed D. McGregor & Co. Makers to the Admniralty. Greenock. Glasgow & Liverpool No.K/2102, rate certificate of Alf. Willings & Co. date 14th Mar 1960, with outer guard box, dial dia -- 4 7/8in. (9.8cm.), box -- 7in. (17.8cm.) wide

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