James McCabe No. 471 A Victorian Royal presentation engraved gilt-brass eight-day marine chronometer. Circa 1860 The dial signed James Mc.Cabe Royal Exchange London on the chapter ring with raised polished gilt Roman chapters, the centre finely engraved with scrolling foliage with large diameter subsidiary seconds ring at VI and up-and-down ring beneath XII, elaborately pierced lancet form blued hands, the movement signed James McCabe, Royal Exchange, LONDON. 471 , Earnshaw escapement, main and sub-frame assemblies, cut bimetallic balance, segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, the glazed bowl held within an elaborate pierced and foliate engraved gimbal secured in a trunion-type setting in the uprights of the heavily cast gilt stand chased and engraved with intricate foliate designs with scroll feet, the sides with glazed shaped and recessed reserves painted on one side with the Royal monogram VR (Victoria Regina) with the crown and star beneath, the alternate side painted with a monogram (Maharaja of Kashmir?) above the motto Heavens Light Our Guide within a sunburst, on a rectangular gilt-wood base with entrelac carving and covered with a similarly carved glazed gilt-wood rectangular case 115 mm. dial diam., 215 x 300 mm. display case
James McCabe No. 471 A Victorian Royal presentation engraved gilt-brass eight-day marine chronometer. Circa 1860 The dial signed James Mc.Cabe Royal Exchange London on the chapter ring with raised polished gilt Roman chapters, the centre finely engraved with scrolling foliage with large diameter subsidiary seconds ring at VI and up-and-down ring beneath XII, elaborately pierced lancet form blued hands, the movement signed James McCabe, Royal Exchange, LONDON. 471 , Earnshaw escapement, main and sub-frame assemblies, cut bimetallic balance, segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, the glazed bowl held within an elaborate pierced and foliate engraved gimbal secured in a trunion-type setting in the uprights of the heavily cast gilt stand chased and engraved with intricate foliate designs with scroll feet, the sides with glazed shaped and recessed reserves painted on one side with the Royal monogram VR (Victoria Regina) with the crown and star beneath, the alternate side painted with a monogram (Maharaja of Kashmir?) above the motto Heavens Light Our Guide within a sunburst, on a rectangular gilt-wood base with entrelac carving and covered with a similarly carved glazed gilt-wood rectangular case 115 mm. dial diam., 215 x 300 mm. display case
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