Beschreibung:

A fine Victorian silver and nickel inlaid macassar ebony eight-day marine chronometer John Poole No. 1862. Circa 1865 The silvered dial signed John Poole maker to the Admiralty, London No. 1862 with gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary dials for seconds and up/down calibrated 0-7, the movement with spotted plates, mainframe with barrel, reversed fusee and centre wheel, sub-assembly carrying the remainder of the train, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with steel locking pallet, with blued steel helical spring and cut bimetallic compensated balance with Poole's auxiliary, brass bowl punch-numbered 1862 and with spring-loaded winding cover, the box with nickel quarter round edging and silver stringing to the top lid centred by a plaque engraved TWIN SCREW STEAM YACHT Sovereign , the front applied with a mother-of-pearl plaque engraved JOHN POOLE MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY 1. Upper East Smithfield & Commercial Rd. London 1862 120mm. dial diameter; 200mm. square box