Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 178

HAMILTON CHRONOMETER DECK WATCH Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, PA., U.S.A., Model 22, No. N 8674-1943, case No. 18219. Sold to the Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy in 1943. Fine, keyless, chromed base metal, deck lever Chronometer with 48-hour power reserve indication. Accompanied by the original mahogany fitted box.

Three piece with screwed milled bezel and back. Antimagnetic inner protecting cap. Silvered with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and up-and- down dials. Black Spade hands. 25", rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self compensating Breguet balance spring, special micrometric index regulator.