Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 116

?Deck Chronometer? Hamilton, Lancaster, PA., U.S.A., No. 2F8889, case No. 440947. Sold to the U.S. Navy in 1941. Fine, keyless, deck lever chronometer, model 22, No. N 4473, with 48-hour power reserve indication, in original mahogany fitted box.

C. Three piece with screwed milled bezel and back. Antimagnetic inner protecting cap. D. Silvered with Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and- down. Black ?Spade? hands. M. 25"', rhodium plated, "fausses cotes " decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self compensating balance spring with terminal curve and special micrometric index. Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 70 mm.