| An unusual Swiss two day lever with power reserve indication in a gilt desk clock. Keyless damascened nickelled bar movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator. Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement. Signed silvered dial
with applied gilt batons, subsidiaries for seconds and power reserve marked for 50 hours, gilt hands. Fitted in a marine chronometer tub, the screw back weighted to keep the dial horizontal. Wound and set by a crown at 12 o'clock, the movement under a glazed cover. Unusually mounted in a in a gilt brass ring resembling gimbals, complete with locking detent. The posts supporting the ring mounted on a silver coloured square plate fixed to an oak base bearing the
Longines logo. Oak keep box with the Longines logo repeated on the lid, both base and box numbered.
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