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Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 139

Wempe, Chronometerwerke, Hamburg, No. 8711, circa 1940. Fine, two-day marine box chronometer with 56-hour winding indicator and Guillaume balance.

C. bakelite bowl with weighting ring and threaded glazed bezel, gimbaled in two-body mahogany box with glazed panel on the top, mahogany handles and rectangular metal name plate, Breguet-type key in a corner plate, key-lock in front, gimbal ring locked by swiveling arm mounted in the front right corner. D. silvered, Arabic hour numerals, subsidiary seconds at 6 o?clock, up-and-down indicator at 12 o?clock. ?Spade? steel hands. M. 85 mm, nickeled full plate, turned pillars secured by screws, fusee and chain, Earnshaw spring-detent escapement, Guillaume cut bimetallic compensation balance with four circular weights, helical balance spring with outer ter-minal curves. Dial and box signned. Dim: height, width and depth: 18 cm.