JAMES MURRAY SMALL MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 497, CIRCA 1825
the 3½in. silvered dial signed James Murray, Royal Exchange, London, No. 497, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl punch-numbered 327 and M&S (Murray & Strachan), screw-down brass bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles, the interior with paper trade label for L. Vander Voodt-Cornet, Antwerp -- 7in. (18cm.) square approx.

Condition Report
Movement very clean and in going order, no obvious defects, dial good with just light marking, possibly associated box generally in good condition.

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