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| Index No. M7502 | English Chronometer Movement by Margetts & Hatton |
| An early 19th Century English full plate gilt keywind fusee chronometer movement. Blue steel Harrison's maintaining power. Slender engraved cock with diamond endstone. Unusual compensation balance, the sliding weights adjustable lateral screws, blue steel rims. Adjustable blue steel stud for the freesprung helical blue steel hairspring. Screwed in jewelling. Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, the detent replaced. Purpose made white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel seconds hand with gilt arbor. | ||
| Signed | Margetts & Hatton London Chronometer 1341 | |
| Circa | 1805 | |
| Excellent, working. Lacking minute hand. | |||
| Diameter | 50.5 mm | ||
| Depth | 16.5 mm | ||
| Margetts was one of the finest English watchmakers of the period. Margetts and Hatton were working together 1805 - 1811. |
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