Description
box and movement by association, movement running, plates with minor staining, some steel with scattered, minor oxide, balance spring with losses to bluing, dial with minor marks and dirt, hands good, bowl with dings and scratches, small gap between bezel and dial, bezel and bowl thread with wear, care required when tightening, box refinished and with minor splits and losses to veneer, rectangular name/ number plate on box front removed, the recess now with putty filler, some lifting and loss to brass inlay. See Gould, "The Marine Chronometer", p. 184, for mention of the Molyneux's use of jewelling in his auxiliary attachments.
Record courtesy of R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts