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The balance staff is the really delicate part at the heart of the mechanism - it is responsible in very large part for the precision of the time keeping
The movement is Smiths’ highest quality 18 jewel movement - unusually for Smiths the balance spring has a Breguet overcoil
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The crystal has been replaced and the watch has been fitted with a Nato one-piece nylon strap
Smiths Antarctic A454 (c. 1953) Current Collection The balance staff is theThis is one of the iconic Smiths watches model A454, known as the Antarctic. The Antarctic moniker was assigned because this model was supplied to the Commonwealth Trans Arctic Expedition in 1957. This was the first successful crossing of the Antarctic since the Amundsen Scott Expeditions in 1911 12. The overland crossing took 99 days starting in November 1957 and finishing in March 1958. The overland crossing team was led by the British Explorer
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