AN AMERICAN OAK-CASED SHIP’S CHRONOMETER

AN AMERICAN OAK-CASED SHIP’S CHRONOMETER

Starting bid£180
Estimate £200 - £400
Absentee deadlineDec 3, 2025, 12:00:00 PM

By Hamilton, Lancaster, type 21 model, the dial No 8783, dated 1941, the movement No 5789-1941

The two-tier case with hinged glazed cover, brass bowl and gimbals, with screwed bezel and bevelled glass, 4 1/4in circular silvered dial, signed, numbered and dated, with blued steel hands and subsidiaries for state of wind and seconds, the nickel-plated signed movement numbered 5789-1941 with chain fusée, maintaining power, compensated freesprung balance with Earnshaw type detent escapement

19cm square


CONDITION REPORT
With associated key.  The movement is running and ticking.  Please note mis-matching numbers to dial and movement, perhaps the parts are associated and reconstructed, which may include the box and bowl?