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Geneva, November 8th-9th, 2025

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LOT 149

T. JONES & SON, ENGLAND, MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH 56-HOUR POWER RESERVE, BRASS AND WOOD

CHF 2,000 - 4,000

HKD 19,100 - 38,200 / USD 2,500 - 4,900 / EUR 2,200 - 4,400 / JPY 384,000 - 770,000

A fine, brass and wood, manual wind marine chronometer with 56-hour power reserve indication at 12 o’clock. Silvered dial with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and blued steel spade hands.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand T. Jones & Son, England

Year Circa 1840

Movement No. 8256

Case No. 8256

Caliber 85 mm., full-plate movement, relieved for the barrel, with ringed cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain with maintaining power, Earnshaw-type spring-detent escapement, two-arm bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical weights and mean-time adjustment screws, diamond endstone, and free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring.

Diameter 188 X 188 mm.

Signature Dial and case