Apart from prototypes I don’t believe it can be a Marine Chronometer without a serial number.
Are there other photos including the crown / side and if possible the movement.
My first thought was also some sort of cut and shut. Interesting if it is a 1516 movement as parts are getting thin on the ground.
Maybe it is just the plate which fell off and got replaced as suggested above. Hard to tell from one photo which is an odd format.
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