Smith's Marine Clock

This was another local auction purchase. It is a Smith's Empire Model 123 from 1935-6. It wasn't dirt cheap but certainly a lot less than they go for on e-Bay so as well as it being something that I wanted there's a nice element of investment with it too.

It worked as it stood but I gave it a clean, and this movement is simple enough for me to fully dismantle and do properly.

The only other problems I found was that the click spring was starting to split and the ratchet wheel appears to have been changed at some point for whatever the repairer had to hand. Changing both these would be simple and relatively cheap but the ratchet wheel isn't a big problem and I stabilised the click spring by soldering a bit of old tin can to it.
 
It now looks nice and keeps good time.