Antique Hamilton Watch Company Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 4/13/2002
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Catalog Description:

Very fine mahogany two-day marine chronometer with winding indicator. Hamilton Watch Co, made in 1941. Very Hamilton Watch Co, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, No. 8765, sold to the Hydrographic Service of the French Marine, made in 1941. Very fine mahogany two-day marine chronometer with winding indicator. C. Three-body, with brass handles, all the edges and corners protected by heavy brass inlay, the glazed upper section with hinged lid locked by a catch. Brass bowl and gimbaled suspension, ratchet key in its socket in back right corner. D. Silvered with upright Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down scale. Blackened steel "spade" hands. M. Nickel, "fausses-cotes" decoration, full plate with baluster pillars secured by screws, 13 jewels, fusee with chain and maintaining power, spring detent escapement, two-arm patented ovalizing Volet balance with Invar arm and steel rim, free-sprung Elinvar Extra polished helical balance spring with terminal curves. Signed on dial, movement and box. Dim. Bowl 113 mm., box 19 x 19 x 19 cm. For a note concerning the Volet balance, see the previous lot.

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