| An early 20th Century centre seconds English lever in a silver case and mahogany deck box. Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement bearing the broad ministry arrow. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring. English table roller
lever escapement, screwed in jewelling, escape and lever pivots with endstones. Signed and numbered white enamel dial with broad ministry arrow. Centre seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Plain silver open face case with gilt winding button, maker's mark "WB" in a rectangle, number corresponding to that on the movement. Silver cuvette only, back and bow removed. Secured in a mahogany deck box by a glazed brass
screw bezel, velvet lined and with brass furniture. A metal circular disc secured to the top engraved "Captain M P Lewis" and a small bone plate marked "RAF". The watch is accompanied by a photocopy of the ledger at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. This records the early history of the watch purchased in June 1916. The earliest entry showing it on HMS Gibralter in July 1916. It was transferred 30 times, at first to the
maker and finishing a Dents in November 1936.
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