THOMAS MERCER No. 8330: An eight-day marine chronometer, circa 1954, the silvered dial signed and numbered Thomas Mercer 8330, Roman hour chapters, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dial, blued steel hands, gilded main and subsidiary frame assemblies, the dial-plate similarly gilded, Earnshaw escapement with Mercer strip steel detent, cut bi-metallic balance, palladium helical balance spring, the whole protected by a chain guard, lacquered brass bowl and gimbal, glazed two-tier mahogany box with brass plaque to front of top half inscribed suppled by centromor, Mokotonska. 19 Warszawa No. 8330

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THOMAS MERCER No. 8330: An eight-day marine chronometer, circa 1954, the silvered dial signed and numbered Thomas Mercer 8330, Roman hour chapters, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dial, blued steel hands, gilded main and subsidiary frame assemblies, the dial-plate similarly gilded, Earnshaw escapement with Mercer strip steel detent, cut bi-metallic balance, palladium helical balance spring, the whole protected by a chain guard, lacquered brass bowl and gimbal, glazed two-tier mahogany box with brass plaque to front of top half inscribed suppled by centromor, Mokotonska. 19 Warszawa No. 8330
Dial diameter: 120mm

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This chronometer was made in 1954 and was one of the last to be made with the small circular-shaped sub-frame assembly carrying the escapement. It is also one of the few Mercer 8-day chronometers to have gilded plates

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