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LicenseEight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son, London, c
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son, London, c
Science Museum Group /The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son, London, c. 1795. Octagonal kingwood box without gimbals. Silvered dial with subsidiary seconds dial and signed 'John Arnold and Son, London'. Movement with fusee and spring-detent escapement with Z balance and helical steel spring with end-curves. Signed on the movement 'John Arnold & Son London No 78/168 Invt. et Fect'. This chronometer originally formed part of the collection of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp. Clockmakers' Museum No. 603
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3485
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), glass, kingwood and silvered
- Measurements:
-
overall: 100 mm x 165 mm x 165 mm,
dial: 115 mm
- type:
- marine chronometer and spring detent escapement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
