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An English rosewood eight-day four-glass mantel chronometer, Thomas Mercer, St Albans, circa 1980
The case with brass handle to the stepped top with escapement viewing glass, ripple mouldings to the cornices, on part bombé stepped base with flattened brass feet, silvered slip to the square silvered Roman dial with subsidiary seconds ring at XII and up-down ring at VI, signed in the centre Thomas Mercer St. Albans/No. 1254, blued steel hands, movement with four back-screwed bulbous pillars joining spot-finished plates, single chain fusee, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, stop/start lever and steel helical spring, with spot-finished platform and bridge, inscribed MADE IN ENGLAND 13 JEWELS, maintaining power, signed on the back plate No.1254 and MADE BY/Thomas Mercer/FOR/W. Phillipson -- 9½ in. (24.5 cm.) high, handle down; key
The case with brass handle to the stepped top with escapement viewing glass, ripple mouldings to the cornices, on part bombé stepped base with flattened brass feet, silvered slip to the square silvered Roman dial with subsidiary seconds ring at XII and up-down ring at VI, signed in the centre Thomas Mercer St. Albans/No. 1254, blued steel hands, movement with four back-screwed bulbous pillars joining spot-finished plates, single chain fusee, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, stop/start lever and steel helical spring, with spot-finished platform and bridge, inscribed MADE IN ENGLAND 13 JEWELS, maintaining power, signed on the back plate No.1254 and MADE BY/Thomas Mercer/FOR/W. Phillipson -- 9½ in. (24.5 cm.) high, handle down; key
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