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Attribution:
- Photographer: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)
- Source: commons.wikimedia.or/wiki/File:British_Museum_Marine_Chronometer_1.jpg
- Poetry: Lewis Carroll (www.snrk.de/snarkhunt/?newpics=no)
- Arrangement: Goetz Kluge (snrk.de)

British Museum reference: CAI.1957, L210 / Registration:1958,1006.1957

Detailed description: Marine chronometer, Rectangular mahogany box, lined with green beize, with brass carrying handles at the sides. Hinged lid with glazed viewing aperture and sliding mahogany cover. A key-operated lock at the front. There is an inserted plain ivory disc in the lid front. Silvered brass dial with Roman hours I-XII within a minutes circle. Subsidiary seconds dial above VI. Plain blued-steel hour, minute and seconds hands. Movement contained in a lacquered brass bowl. One-day spring-driven movement, with fusee and Harrison's maintaining power. Jewelled bearings for train wheels in screwed settings. Earnshaw spring-detent escapement with Earshaw split-bimetallic temperature compensation balance and free-sprung helical blued-steel balance spring.

Size Height: 17.6 cm (6.9 in) Width: 20.8 cm (8.2 in) Depth: 20.8 cm (8.2 in)
Location Room 39 case 10
Description: The Beagle chronometer. In the British Museum.
Date 27 June 2010
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).

As for "perpetual passion": Time moves on perpetually.

The Bellman and Father Time, who won't take bribes.

left: Front cover of The Hunting of the Snark
right: Queen Elizabeth I at old age, Father Time and Death (who won't take bribes either):

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Hi Spacemouses, perhaps Dodgson/Carroll thought so too when he gave the Jubjub bird its name. It could stand for clock or for time.

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By the way:
soundcloud.com/a-history-of-the-world/ahow-091-ships-chronometer
"A 19th century chronometer. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, looks at an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world - a marine chronometer. In particular the chronometer that accompanied Charles Darwin on his historic voyage around the world on board HMS Beagle. With contributions by geographer Nigel Thrift and geneticist Steve Jones. Oct 11, 2010"

See also: www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/u6Qnc25jQ5OIO-X92mZz6Q

The capture is Mike Peel's (see above)

The riddle: www.reddit.com/r/riddles/comments/3me8to/jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub_jub