MCGREGOR & CO 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH MERCER'S AUXILIARY COMPENSATION BALANCE, NO. 2568, CIRCA 1877
the 4in silvered dial signed D. McGregor & Co., MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, Glasgow & Greenock, M/2568, Auxiliary H Compensation, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement made by Mercer punch-numbered 1186 on the dial plate, fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, Mercer's auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, punch-numbered gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier brass-bound and inlaid box with mother of pearl signature plaque -- 6½ x 7½in. (16.5 x 19cm.) square approx.

Condition Report
Movement in going order with no obvious defects; lacquered dial good overall just with light pitting to lacquer; fine quality box, 2 cracks to veneer on lid, brass inlay lifting and one brass edge missing, another detached.

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