An English small burr-walnut and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, ST. ALBANS, NO.1231. CIRCA 1975
An English small burr-walnut and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, St. Albans, No.1231. Circa 1975 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/No 1231/ST. ALBANS ENGLAND , with subsidiary seconds below XII and up/down sector above VI, blued steel stop/start button between XII and I, blued steel hands, the single chain and fusee movement with maintaining power and conforming signature to the heavy rectangular spotted brass back plate, secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the spotted rectangular escapement platform stamped MERCER/1258/MADE IN/ENGLAND 13 JEWELS , with steel helical spring to cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone 9½ in. (24 cm.) high
An English small burr-walnut and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, ST. ALBANS, NO.1231. CIRCA 1975
An English small burr-walnut and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, St. Albans, No.1231. Circa 1975 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/No 1231/ST. ALBANS ENGLAND , with subsidiary seconds below XII and up/down sector above VI, blued steel stop/start button between XII and I, blued steel hands, the single chain and fusee movement with maintaining power and conforming signature to the heavy rectangular spotted brass back plate, secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the spotted rectangular escapement platform stamped MERCER/1258/MADE IN/ENGLAND 13 JEWELS , with steel helical spring to cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone 9½ in. (24 cm.) high
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