E. Dent & Co., London No. 55518

Circa 1906

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185mm. square box

A very fine mahogany two-day marine chronometer. DIAL The 102mm. silvered engraved brass dial has Roman chapters with outer minute track, blued steel spade hands. The centre is signed DENT (within Trademark triangle) Maker to the King, 61 STRAND & ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON No. 55518 with up-and-down sector at XII calibrated 0-56, seconds ring at VI, both with blued steel hands. MOVEMENT The full-plate movement has spotted plates, reversed chain fusee and spring barrel, the escapement with cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, steel helical balance spring and Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone. BOX Brass bowl punch-numbered 55516 to the inside with spring-loaded winding cover to the underside, gimbal and locking arm, tipsy winding key, baize-lined interior edge, fine quality three-tier mahogany box with enamel plaque to the centre section signed DENT (within Trademark triangle) 55518, vacant brass cartouche in the top lid, brass drop handles to the sides, the inside of the top lid is pasted with Dent�s trade label. DENT Edward John Dent was born in 1790 died in 1853. The triangular trademark seen on the front of the box�s mid section was first used in 1876 and applied to all clocks, watches and marine chronometers together with the appropriate address on the dial. The Trademark was applied for under the joint names (then owners) Amelia Gardner, Thomas Buckney and Henry Dent. By this date Dent�s manufactory was in 4 Hanway Place in West London, just north of Soho Square and Oxford Street.