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13 assorted timing weights
Advance / Retard Mechanism
Advance/ Retard Mechanism Retaining Stud
Advance/ Retard Mechanism Retaining Studs
Assorted timing weights
Beat plaque
Bell Jar
Bell jar
Brass plate with a steel screw
Clock, master
Condenser
Electric Impulse Clock
Electric Impulse Dial
Electric wall impulse clock
Electric Wall Slave Clock
Glass Plate
Glass plate and spacer
Impulse Roller and Frame
Manometer
Marine chronometer
Master clock
Master impulse arm and roller
Master impulsing unit
Master suspension unit
Microscope
Movement
Name plate
Pendulum
Pendulum Support
Pendulum Support Retaining Screws
Primary Slave Clock
Primary Slave Pendulum
Primary Slave Suspension
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 3
Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16
Shortt master and slave clock system No 3
Shortt master and slave clock system No 16
Six timing weights
Slave clock
Slave dial
Slave Dials
Slave suspension unit
Small steel spring
Suspension
Suspension Clamp
Tank
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: clock, master
timekeeper: pendulum
Timing weight
Timing weights
Vernier Slave Clock
Vernier Slave Pendulum
Vernier Slave Suspension
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Abraham Louis Breguet & Fils
Gents' of Leicester
Shortt, William Hamilton
Synchronome Co Ltd
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Leicester, England
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French Ministry of Marine
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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PUL-SYN-ETIC (Electric Impulse Clock)
Pendulum
Electric wall impulse clock
4138 (Marine chronometer)
Shortt Free Pendulum System, No. 3, Designed by William Hamilton Shortt and manufactured by the Synchronome Co. Ltd. 32-34 Clerkenwell Road, London (Shortt Free Pendulum System No 3)
Clock, master
Timing weight
16 (Shortt Free Pendulum System No 16)
Vernier Slave Clock
Vernier Slave Pendulum
Electric Impulse Clock (Electric Impulse Clock)
Bell Jar
Movement
Suspension
Glass Plate
Bell jar
Glass plate and spacer
Master impulsing unit
Advance/ Retard Mechanism Retaining Studs
Beat plaque
Name plate
Microscope
Brass plate with a steel screw
Six timing weights
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