Lot 17
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A Victorian eight-day marine chronometer with form of Molyneux's compensation
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A Victorian eight-day marine chronometer with form of Molyneux's compensation

VULLIAMY, LONDON. CIRCA 1850

Details
A Victorian eight-day marine chronometer with form of Molyneux's compensation
Vulliamy, London. Circa 1850
The silvered dial signed VULLIAMY, LONDON, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down (0-7) dials, moon style hour and minute hands, all hands of blued steel, mainframe assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly carrying the remainder of the train and spring detent with brass bowl, bezel with flat glass, gimballed in rosewood three-tier box, brass corners to top lid and bottom section, decorative keyhole escutcheon, bone disc to front of middle section inscribed VULLIAMY. LONDON, plain bone disc to front of bottom section, external brass drop handles
115mm. dial diameter, 190 x 190 x 200mm. the box
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

To the best of our knowledge the present lot is the only extant marine chronometer signed VULLIAMY. It has been well documented that Vulliamy used both Thomas Earnshaw and Edward James Dent to make pocket chronometer escapements for the firm, but never complete marine chronometers. The backplate of the dial shows signs of some alteration to the engraving (stoning out) behind the word LONDON, not VULLIAMY. Vulliamy's regular signatures would normally have included the address and serial number; curiously the sub-frame assembly has just the number '3' punched on the brass.

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