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Lot 859

Lot 859

Three dashboard/cockpit clocks. Comprising: a Waltham Watch Co. car example, with 3.5" Arabic...

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Lot 859

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Three dashboard/cockpit clocks. Comprising: a Waltham Watch Co. car example, with 3.5" Arabic dial, subsidiary seconds dial beneath 12 and wind indicator beside, marked "WALTHAM WATCH CO.", stamped verso K-3, the associated screw-on rear cover concealing a bottom-wound movement with cut-away backplate stamped "WALTHAM WATCH CO. 8 DAYS 15 JEWELS ADJUSTED", numbered 19510395, 4.1", (10.5cm) diameter, on later display stand with card mount annotated verso "1935-41 B17 BOMBER CLOCK...", together with A World War II aircraft cockpit clock, with 2-inch black dial having Arabic quarters, white hour markers and green minute track, inscribed "8 DAYS MK. IV", stamped verso "A.M. 106A/322 4167/41" (A. M. for Air Ministry, 106A for American Aircraft, dated 1941), within four-lobed housing; and a Smiths transistor clock, (3).

Postage: Auction Default

Weight: No

Total lot weight: No

1. Dial grubby, minor scratch to glass. Rear cover not original and is damaged. No military markings (m,ay have been on original rear cover), attribution to B17 bomber is in a restorer's hand in pencil to the card mount, sold 'as is'.
2. General paint flaking. Green minute markers could be a later alteration (should apparently be white)
3. Light rusting.

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