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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 54

Hamilton, Lancaster, PA. USA, No. 2F6816,case No. 44042, sold to the U.S. Navy in 1942.Fine keyless deck watch, model 22, No. 3256, with8-hour power reserve indication, in original mahogany fitted box and outer fitted travelling 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, half moon sector. Blued steel spade hands.M. 25???, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? 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.