English important silver deck watch chronometer Circa 1824

Deck watch by William Goffe, chronometermaker to the Board of Admiralty
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An important, very heavy English silver open faced deck watch chronometer, with original box, circa 1824.
Original silver case with hallmarks 1824 and casemaker’s punch WL (William Linsley) London; interesting Earnshaw chronometer movement with special chronometer balance, screwed round weights and cylindrical weights, cylindrical hairspring, diamond endstone and screwed gold chatons; signed and numbered white enamel dial with Roman hours, sunk subsidiary dial with Arabic seconds and extravagant Breguet steel hands.
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Diameter: 63 mm
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Weight: 205 g
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Signed: Goffe Falmouth
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William Goffe from Falmouth was Royal chronometer maker and submitted watches to chronometer contests in Greenwich.