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Index No. M7305 Large Regulator Dial Chronometer Movement
A large mid 19th Century French chronometer with regulator dial.  Gilt half plate keywind movement with reverse fusee and chain. Harrison's maintaining power. Plain cock, large two arm compensation balance with weights, freesprung blue steel helical  hairspring. Earnshaw type chronometer escapement with short pivoted detent.  Fine regulator style white enamel dial with centre minutes and subsidiaries for hours and  seconds.  Roman and Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  
Anonymous French
Circa 1850
Very good, balance pivot and impulse jewel broken.  Hairline crack to the dial.  Lacking seconds hand.
Diameter 56.5 mm
Depth14 mm
An unusual large chronometer which was signed on the dial.  The maker is indistinct but "a Paris" can be made out on the right.
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