ROBERT ROSKELL: A two-day marine chronometer, the matt silvered dial signed Roskell, Liverpool, Roman hour chapters, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, reverse fusee, flat spring detent with jewelled pallet to side of banking block, cut bi-metallic Guillaume integral balance, blued steel helical balance spring, bakerlite bowl bezel and gimbal, plain three-tier mahogany box, flush recessed handles, unsigned ivory disc to front of middle section

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ROBERT ROSKELL: A two-day marine chronometer, the matt silvered dial signed Roskell, Liverpool, Roman hour chapters, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, reverse fusee, flat spring detent with jewelled pallet to side of banking block, cut bi-metallic Guillaume integral balance, blued steel helical balance spring, bakerlite bowl bezel and gimbal, plain three-tier mahogany box, flush recessed handles, unsigned ivory disc to front of middle section
Dial diameter: 95mm
Box: 185mm square

Lot Essay

The movement does not carry any manufacturers' name or mark; on the dial plate is punched 49 and in the bottom of the bowl 3549. The hour and minute hands are both numbered 3549. However this is undoubtedly a W.W.2 German chronometer almost certainly by Wempe Chrometerwerke of Hamburg

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