A two-day marine chronometer with Mercer auxiliary

ANDREW CHRISTIE, NO. 8091, CIRCA 1875 WITH LATER DIAL

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A two-day marine chronometer with Mercer auxiliary
Andrew Christie, No. 8091, circa 1875 with later dial
The associated silvered dial signed and numbered ANDREW CHRISTIE Chronometer Maker GLASGOW 1801 AUXILIARY COMPENSATION and two 'garter testimonials' (filled red), one at X reading ANDREW CHRISTIE 1889, the other at II reading GLASGOW 1912, Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with Mercer auxiliary, later spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, later gimbal and later plain three-tier mahogany box, the middle section with inset disc inscribed CHRISTIE 8091 GLASGOW, external brass drop handles
103 mm. dial diam., 185 mm. sq. box

Lot Essay

Andrew Christie is recorded at Clyde Place, Glasgow 1887-1902. It is most likely that he later became a partner with James Wilson under the trading style Christie & Wilson, Nautical Opticians, Broomielaw, Glasgow.

Christie made a practise of fitting his own dials to earlier chronometers. This is the case with No. 8091, the movement bears Thomas Mercer's works number 2646 which was issued circa 1876.

The box is of comparatively recent manufacture, having been made by L. Goff, Mercer's chronometer box maker in October 1985.

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