W.G. EHRLICH, NO. 598. CIRCA 1895

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A German brass-mounted mahogany two-day marine chronometer
W.G. Ehrlich, No. 598. Circa 1895
The silvered dial signed W,G, Ehrlich, BREMERHAVEN. No. 598, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds with blued steel hand and up-and-down sector with gold hand and inscribed Ab & Auf, the movement with spotted plates signed W.G. Ehrlich, Earnshaw spring detent escapement with cut bimetallic compensated balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with double parallel brass stringing, the mid section with inset bone plaque inscribed W,G, Ehrlich, No. 598, external flush brass handles, later top
100 mm. dial diam., 180 mm. sq. the box

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Lot Essay

W.G. Ehrlich is recorded at Bremerhaven 1868-1907 and between 1905 and 1911 he was using Johannsen movements, one of which is used in No. 598.
The scallop-plate on the bottom of the bowl is inscribed H.S.I. This indicates that it has seen service with the Royal Navy, but it is not recorded in the Chronometer Index of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. It was possibly one of those offered to the Hydrographer of the Royal Navy during World War Two when an appeal was made to the general public for any chronometers in private hands.

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