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LOT 317

"8-Day Marine Chronometer" Thomas Mercer Ltd, St. Albans, England, No. 8244, supplied by W. T. Story Ltd, 244, Dalton Road, Barrow-In-Furness, No. 8260. Made for the Hispanic market, circa 1950. Fine and rare, mahogany, 8-day marine chronometer with power reserve indication.

USD 3,500 - 4,500

EUR 2,700 - 3,500

Sold: USD 5,310

C. Brass bowl with screwed-down glazed bezel, gimbaled in a three-tier mahogany box, the central section with applied supplier's signature plaque, glazed top and hinged lid, brass handles. D. Silvered, with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, power reserve dial below 12. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Brass half plate, ring-turned pillars with blued steel screws, fusee and chain with Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw's spring-detent escapement mounted within two smaller circular plates, cut bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical weights, temperature adjustment screws and meantime adjustment nuts, free-sprung special alloy helical balance spring with terminal curves. Dial and box signed, dial and box numbered. Bowl 13 cm. in diameter, box 20.5 x 21 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-10

Good

Patinated
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-9-01

Good

Scratched

HANDS Original

Notes

Barrow-In-Furness was one of the major British shipbuilding yards of the 19th and 20th Centuries. This chronometer would have been bought from Thomas Mercer Ltd and supplied by W. T. Story for a ship being built for a Hispanic client. The indications on the power reserve dial are in Spanish.