Fine small mahogany, 49 hour-going, marine chronometer with regulator dial and power reserve indicator. Vissire, Paris, sold circa 1860.

Fine small mahogany, 49 hour-going, marine chronometer with regulator dial and power reserve indicator. Vissire, Paris, sold circa 1860. Precision Timekeeper with 1 Complication, Vissire, 56 rue de l'Ouest, Paris, No. 243, sold to the Dpat de la Marine, circa 1860. Fine small mahogany, 49 hour-going, marine chronometer with regulator dial and power reserve indicator. C. Three body mahogany box with external brass handles, glazed upper section with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension mounted on shock absorber. D. Silvered with subsidiary small Roman hour chapter ring, symmetrical Arabic seconds ring and up-and-down sector below, outer Arabic minutes ring on the border. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. Brass full plate with cylindrical pillars secured by screws, fusee with maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement two-arm bimetallic copensation balance with cylindrical weights and timing screws. Free sprung polished-steel helical balance spring with terminal curves and diamond end-stone. Signed on the box, dial and movement. Dial diam. 80 mm. Dim. 16 x 16 x 17 cm.