Lot 664
664
A DANISH BRASS-BOUND AND MOUNTED COROMANDEL TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
A DANISH BRASS-BOUND AND MOUNTED COROMANDEL TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER

CARL RANCH, COPENHAGEN, NO. 463. LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A DANISH BRASS-BOUND AND MOUNTED COROMANDEL TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
CARL RANCH, COPENHAGEN, NO. 463. LATE 19TH CENTURY
BOX: ivory plaque signed 'Carl Rach/COPENHAGEN/No. 463.', brass bowl and gimbal punch numbered '463', inner dust cover DIAL: 95 mm. diameter silvered dial with subsidiaries for state of wind and seconds, signed 'Carl Ranch COPENHAGEN/463, gold main hands MOVEMENT: spot finished plates, Harrinson's maintaining power to single chain fusee, detent escapement to cut bimetallic balance with circular temperature compensation weights; tipsy winding key
7¾ in. (19.5 cm.) high; 7 in. (18 cm.) square

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Carl Ranch (circa 1862) was Chronometer maker to the Danish Royal Navy. He is recorded working at 26 Ostergade, Copenhagen from 1920 to 1923 and having won various medals for his work in Paris, London and Stockholm.

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