An English mahogany and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, ST. ALBANS, NO.809. CIRCA 1946
An English mahogany and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, St. Albans, No.809. Circa 1946 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 LTD ST. ALBANS, ENG. , 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 fusee movement with maintaining power, heavy rectangular spotted brass plates secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the gilt-brass rectangular escapement platform with cut bi-metallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance spring, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone, the brass seatboard punch numbered 809 to the underside; tipsy winding key 11¾ in. (30 cm.) high
An English mahogany and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer
THOMAS MERCER, ST. ALBANS, NO.809. CIRCA 1946
An English mahogany and ebony-strung eight day mantel chronometer Thomas Mercer, St. Albans, No.809. Circa 1946 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 LTD ST. ALBANS, ENG. , 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 fusee movement with maintaining power, heavy rectangular spotted brass plates secured by four gilt-brass double-screwed baluster pillars, the gilt-brass rectangular escapement platform with cut bi-metallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance spring, Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone, the brass seatboard punch numbered 809 to the underside; tipsy winding key 11¾ in. (30 cm.) high
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