Lot 82
FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND BRASS MANTLE CHRONOMETER BY GEORGE MARGETTS, NO. 97
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the eight day movement with a single winding hole to the back, the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters and subsidiary seconds dial above the VI, signed 'Margetts/ London/ Invt' and 'No. 97' in the seconds dial, mounted on a waisted mahogany stand with ogee brass feet and surmounted by a brass urn finial, the reverse bearing a circular ivory label inscribed 'MARGETTS/ 97/ EIGHT DAYS'; eight day chronometer movement with spring detent platform and chain fusee movement
Dimensions
clock 13cm diam, 33cm high overall
Footnote
George Margetts
London (Cheapside) Freeman of Clockmakers Company 1779, Liveryman of the Clockmakers Company 1799 - 1808. A famous maker of the late 18th Century in the circle of English horologists experimenting with precision timekeeping, such as: Mudge, Emery, Arnold, Earnshaw, Kendal, Brockbank, Barraud, Pennington and Haley. Examples of his work can be found in the British Museum, Guildhall Museum and the Dennison Collection.