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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 236

Gebber Eppner, Berlin, No. 189, circa 1940. Fine mahogany two-day marine chronometer with winding indicator and reversible fusee.

C. Brass bowl with threaded glazed bezel gimbaled in three-body mahogany box with glazed panel in the top under hinged lid with fitted catch, brass handles, brass plate for a signature, Breguet-type key in a corner plate, key-lock in front, gimbal ring locked by swiveling arm pressing sideways against the base of the cylinder. D. silvered, Roman hour numerals, outer minute ring, Arabic seconds on subsidiary dial at 6 o'clock, up/down indicator at 12 o'clock. Gold "Spade" hands. M. 82 mm., brass full plate with recess for the mainspring barrel, spotted decoration, cylindrical pillars, secured by screws, 11 jewels, reversible fusee and chain, Earnshaw spring-detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with free-sprung polished steel alloy balance spring with terminal curves, two cylindrical temperature adjustment weights, two mean time adjustment nuts, escapement jeweled. Signed on the dial and movement. Dim. Height 17 cm., width and depth 18 cm.