A very good eight-day duration Marine Chronometer with Barraud’s Patent winding.

The three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with ivory plaque to the middle tier, signed FRENCH and numbered 0 over 9912, with brass flush handles, the gimballed bowl with 4 ½ inch silvered dial, signed French, Royal Exchange, LONDON and numbered 9912, with Roman numerals and subsidiaries for state of wind and seconds. The eight-day duration chain fusée signed and numbered movement with Earnshaw’s spring detent escapement wound from the base of the bowl via Barraud’s Patent captive winding system.