Archive of Sold Items

A mid 20^th Century American 56 hour lever Model 22 deck watch with power reserve indication in a mahogany deck box.  Damascened nickelled split three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator, uncut balance employing quarter timing nuts, overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement. Signed silvered dial with subsidiaries for power reserve and seconds, Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.   Keystone base metal open face case, clip on cuvette, screw bezel and back marked “Bureau of Ships – US Navy – N1535-1941 – Chronometer Watch”.  Two piece mahogany deck box lined with green baize, glazed circular aperture to reveal the dial.  Plate detailing instructions on how to use the watch and set the hands.  Baize lined mahogany keep box secured by a latch and leather strap, side wings to the base to allow it to be secured by two screws.

An American 56 hour marine chronometer in a brass bound mahogany box.  Full plate damascened nickel keywind fusee movement, four turned pillars secured by polished steel screws.  Harrison’s maintaining power, polished steel barrel ratchet wheel on the barrel bridge.  Brass fusee and barrel. Two arm uncut balance with brass timing screws, two smaller micrometer adjustment timing nuts and two further even smaller timing nuts. Freesprung helical hairspring.  Earnshaw spring detent escapement, escape pivots with endstones. The movement secured to the gilt dial plate by three polished steel screws.  Engraved signed and numbered silvered brass dial with subsidiaries for seconds and power reserve indication, Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Turned brass bowl with knurled screw bezel, sprung rotating shutter to the winding aperture.  Brass gimbals and locking mechanism, brass ratchet key bearing the serial number.  Three tier mahogany box, drop brass handles, corners, and hinges.  Middle tier with two rectangular plaques, one engraved with the maker’s name, the other with the serial number.  Both these plates repeated inside the base below the bowl.  A black plate inside the middle tier bearing the serial number and “Ministry of Defence Hydrographic Dept. Chronometer Marine”.