BROCKBANK & ATKINS FOR THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (P & O) MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 2424, MADE IN 1913
the 4 1/8in silvered dial signed Brockbank & Atkins, London, No. 2424, also inscribed in red P & O S.N.Co., 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, Earnshaw bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier mahogany box with brass flush handles and signed and numbered signature plaque -- 7½in. (19cm.) square approx.

It is extremely rare to find a chronometer inscribed specifically for use by P&O, in fact, to date only one other example appears to have been offered at auction. According to our research this chronometer No. 2424 was made in 1913. See: "Chronometer Makers of the world", Tony Mercer, 2004, p.113.

Condition Report
Movement very clean and in going order; no obvious defects; dial good but with some spotting; box faded and dry and top lid replaced, slightly scratched and lid marked with a ring.

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