A 20th Century German Wempe two-day lever marine chronometer
A 20th Century German Wempe two-day lever marine chronometer

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A 20th Century German Wempe two-day lever marine chronometer
Gerh D. Wempe No.3103, circa 1950
The silvered dial signed and numbered Gerh.D.Wempe, Hamburg, ABT. Chronometer Werke, Arabic hour numerals, yellow metal hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, fusee movement, lever escapement with start/stop assembly, Guillaume balance with four small cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, aluminium bowl with integral form of rubber gimball, aluminum bowl with alteration controls [at VIII], plain two-tier box with glazed top and exteranl brass drop handles, dial diam -- 95mm.; box -- 185 x 185 x 170mm.

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