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Patek Philippe. An unusual metal and aluminium electronic marine chronometer with sweep centre seconds and wooden box

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, GENEVA, NO. 1277/17, RETAILED BY KELVIN HUGHES, LONDON, CIRCA 1970

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Patek Philippe. An unusual metal and aluminium electronic marine chronometer with sweep centre seconds and wooden box
Signed Patek Philippe, Geneva, no. 1277/17, retailed by Kelvin Hughes, London, circa 1970
Quartz movement, black matte dial, Arabic five minutes, 24 hours and 12 hours indication, luminous hands, sweep centre seconds, luminous beady minute divisions, square metal and aluminum case, held by two screws within the hinged two-tier mahogany deck box with glazed cover, case signed by maker and retailer, movement signed by maker
180 mm. wide

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According to our researches, the present marine chronometer is one of only six examples of this model to appear in public to date.

Kelvin Hughes Limited have been supplying mariners with chronometers, compasses and sextants for over two hundred and fifty years.

In 1941, two firms formed an alliance under the name Kelvin & Hughes, Marine Instruments Ltd.: Kelvin Bottomley & Baird, founded in Glasgow around 1850, manufacturer and supplier of technical equipment, and Hughes, originally clock makers in the East End of London who had progressed into supplying sextants and chronometers to ships coming into the Thames.

In 1947, all operations were combined in one company, Kelvin Hughes Limited, which in the early 1960s became part of Smiths, a UK based instrument maker.