An English burr-walnut eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, LONDON AND ST ALBANS, NO. 597. CIRCA 1925
An English burr-walnut eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, London and St Albans, No. 597. Circa 1925 The case with bevel-glazed panels to the top and sides and raised on adjustable bun feet, the engraved silvered dial with Roman chapters and signed Thomas Mercer London & St. Albans EST 1858/MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY , and numbered 597 to the centre of the subsidiary seconds ring below XII, with up/down sector above VI, brass stop/start button between XII and I, blued steel hands, the single chain and fusee movement with maintaining power, heavy rectangular spotted brass plates secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the spotted rectangular escapement platform with steel helical spring to cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary compensation and circular heat compensation weights, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone 11 in. (28cm.) high
An English burr-walnut eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, LONDON AND ST ALBANS, NO. 597. CIRCA 1925
An English burr-walnut eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, London and St Albans, No. 597. Circa 1925 The case with bevel-glazed panels to the top and sides and raised on adjustable bun feet, the engraved silvered dial with Roman chapters and signed Thomas Mercer London & St. Albans EST 1858/MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY , and numbered 597 to the centre of the subsidiary seconds ring below XII, with up/down sector above VI, brass stop/start button between XII and I, blued steel hands, the single chain and fusee movement with maintaining power, heavy rectangular spotted brass plates secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the spotted rectangular escapement platform with steel helical spring to cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary compensation and circular heat compensation weights, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone 11 in. (28cm.) high
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