A quartz clock, the white painted dial signed WEMPE CHRONOMETERWERKE HAMBURG, and numbered, outer hour chapter with black Arabic numerals 1-12, inner hour chapter numbered 13-23, centre second sweep, black hands, mounted in mahogany square desk box with sloping top -- 6 1/8in. (15cm.) wide

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A quartz clock, the white painted dial signed WEMPE CHRONOMETERWERKE HAMBURG, and numbered, outer hour chapter with black Arabic numerals 1-12, inner hour chapter numbered 13-23, centre second sweep, black hands, mounted in mahogany square desk box with sloping top -- 6 1/8in. (15cm.) wide

Accompanying documents show that this is reputed to have been carried aboard the replica of the Golden Hind on her transatlantic crossing 1974-1975

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