JOHN FLETCHER MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 2258, CIRCA 1860
the 3 7/8in silvered dial signed John Fletcher, Maker To The Admiralty, 48 Lombard St., London, 2258, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, punch-numbered gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier mahogany box with brass flush handles and vacant signature plaque -- 7in. (18cm.) square approx.

Condition Report
In going order, movement and dial generally clean, box rather battered and repaired with later top lid and signature plaque.

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