A two-day marine chronometer the silvered dial signed and numbered Thomas Mercer 22052 , Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, Mercer flat-strip steel detent with jewelled locking pallet to side, brass bowl and gimbal, frosted metallic paint finish to all brass fittings, 2-tier mahogany box with glazed top lid -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) square and outer guard box This chronometer was manufactured in 1957. The balance cock and bowl scallop-plate are both engraved - Thomas Mercer. St. Albans. Herts. 13 Jewels ; Mercer's had to do this to comply with then current U.S. Custom's Regulations for any chronometer being imported in to America. Included is a Rating Certificate of Victor Auguste Gustin Philadelphia, U.S.A.
A two-day marine chronometer the silvered dial signed and numbered Thomas Mercer 22052 , Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance, cylindrical heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, Mercer flat-strip steel detent with jewelled locking pallet to side, brass bowl and gimbal, frosted metallic paint finish to all brass fittings, 2-tier mahogany box with glazed top lid -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) square and outer guard box This chronometer was manufactured in 1957. The balance cock and bowl scallop-plate are both engraved - Thomas Mercer. St. Albans. Herts. 13 Jewels ; Mercer's had to do this to comply with then current U.S. Custom's Regulations for any chronometer being imported in to America. Included is a Rating Certificate of Victor Auguste Gustin Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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