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Box Chronometer

Catalogue number:
ME*328481

Inscriptions:
"Julius Albers BREMERHAVEN No. 43"

Dimensions:
box 6.75 x 6.75 x 7 inches

Discussion:
This is a 56 hour chronometer with a spring detent escapement, and indications for hours, minutes, seconds, and up and down. It dates from around 1890. Weston College donated it to the Smithsonian in 1967.

Ref: Marvin E. Whitney,The Ship's Chronometer (Cincinnati, 1985), p. 263.

Further Information:

Chronometer