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Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 140

A. Johansen & Co, 149 Minories, London, circa 1880. Fine and interesting, center-seconds desk chronometer.

C. walnut, two-body, rectangular, hinged. D. round, silvered, with Roman numerals and outer minute ring, aper-ture at 12 o?clock for the balance. Block ?parallel? and spade hands. M. 90 x 60 mm, rectangular, brass, convert-ed to pivoted detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring with outer terminal curves, escapement jeweled, winding via a lever protruding below the bezel at 6 o?clock. Dial signed. Dim: height: 14 cm; width and depth: 28cm.