HAMILTON Watch Co, Lancaster, PA, USA. No 2F3824
Fine Model 22, 2-day Chronometer Watch, circa 1942, complete with both boxes.
£1,245.00
Large screw back and bezel Keystone base metal case with snap-on inner dome, the rear cover not with its usual United States Navy markings but with the Hamilton factory description: MFR’S PART NO. 37615, etc. 35-size, 21 jewel, nickel barred movement with safety hand setting device, the barrel bar engraved ‘Adj to Temp & 6 Pos.’ Double-roller detached lever escapement, paired with Hamilton’s monometallic ‘ovalising’ balance and matching balance-spring made of their specially developed ‘Elinvar Extra’ material. Silvered metal dial with 48 hour up/down sector, original blackened steel hands. Watch 71 mm diameter and weighing just over 11 ounces. Together with both its original Hamilton inner and outer mahogany boxes, 15 x 12.5 x 5 cm.
Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – see the books by Marvin Whitney for the extraordinary history of how this company developed both a Model 22 lever escapement Deck Watch and the Model 21 box chronometer at the outset of the USA entering the Second World War. The Deck Watch came in two forms, in this pocket watch-type case (my personal favourite of all Hamilton’s production) and also set-up as a box chronometer in a brass bowl held in gimbals.
NB: The nomenclature on the metal hand settings plaque on the top of the inner box indicating, it is said, that this watch was intended for the US Army rather than the normal US Navy use.
Previously sold in my Postal Auction Catalogue No 5, lot 84. Inner box with some signs of use, the outer very clean, as is the watch and dial – the latter are often marked. Serviced for its previous owner and accompanied by my usual guarantee.
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Large screw back and bezel Keystone base metal case with snap-on inner dome, the rear cover not with its usual United States Navy markings but with the Hamilton factory description: MFR’S PART NO. 37615, etc. 35-size, 21 jewel, nickel barred movement with safety hand setting device, the barrel bar engraved ‘Adj to Temp & 6 Pos.’ Double-roller detached lever escapement, paired with Hamilton’s monometallic ‘ovalising’ balance and matching balance-spring made of their specially developed ‘Elinvar Extra’ material. Silvered metal dial with 48 hour up/down sector, original blackened steel hands. Watch 71 mm diameter and weighing just over 11 ounces. Together with both its original Hamilton inner and outer mahogany boxes, 15 x 12.5 x 5 cm.
Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – see the books by Marvin Whitney for the extraordinary history of how this company developed both a Model 22 lever escapement Deck Watch and the Model 21 box chronometer at the outset of the USA entering the Second World War. The Deck Watch came in two forms, in this pocket watch-type case (my personal favourite of all Hamilton’s production) and also set-up as a box chronometer in a brass bowl held in gimbals.
NB: The nomenclature on the metal hand settings plaque on the top of the inner box indicating, it is said, that this watch was intended for the US Army rather than the normal US Navy use.
Previously sold in my Postal Auction Catalogue No 5, lot 84. Inner box with some signs of use, the outer very clean, as is the watch and dial – the latter are often marked. Serviced for its previous owner and accompanied by my usual guarantee.