M. Low Two-day Break-circuit Marine Chronometer

Description:

M. Low Two-day Break-circuit Marine Chronometer, c. 1942, with silvered twenty-four hour dial, subsidiary seconds and up/down indicator marked M. Low Inc., Est. 1830, center of seconds bit is cut out to show seconds wheel and the break-circuit contacts, in a metal bowl held in a fully foam-lined phenolic case, contacts through the case marked output 10 secs., ht. 6, wd. 8 1/2 in.
Estimate $1,000-2,000

Chronometer is currently running. Unlike most chronometers this one winds through the dial.


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