Art Déco gilded metal and enamel table clock, RMS Laconia vessel, 1920s - 1930s

Height x width x depth: 8.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm. Weight: 117.6 g.

Gilded and green guilloché enamels case, round shape. Gilded dial with Arabic numerals, black hour marker and pendulum at 6 o'clock, bearing the iscription "R.M.S. Laconia".
RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor of the 1911–1917 Laconia. The ship was launched on 9 April 1921, and made her maiden voyage on 25 May 1922 from Southampton to New York City. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and later a troopship. She was sunk in the South Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942 by torpedoes. Like her predecessor, sunk during the First World War, this Laconia was also destroyed by a German submarine. The U-boat commander Werner Hartenstein then staged a dramatic effort to rescue the passengers and the crew of Laconia, which involved additional German U-boats and became known as the Laconia incident.

Item condition grading: **** good.
The case of the clock is in a good state of preservation with the normal wear and defects commensurate with its age and use over time.
The watch movement requires a technical service.