Smiths Edmund Hillary pattern Current Collection again for 24 hour periods

again for 24 hour periods

Case size: 23mm x 38mm

with no discolouration from age

applied arabic numerals and a wonderful light patina

Smiths Edmund Hillary pattern Current Collection again for 24 hour periodsThis is an extremely rare Smiths watch which matches that used on the famous Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay ascent of Everest in 1953. Edmund Hillary's original watch is part of the Worshipful Company of Clockmaker's collection and is on display in the Science Museum in London. For reasons best known to Smiths, the model they used to equip the 1952 Everest expeditionary force was produced in rather small numbers and differs from the model that Smiths