FRENCH, LONDON, NO.4900. CIRCA 1840

細節

An early Victorian mahogany and brass-mounted eight day marine chronometer
French, London, No.4900. Circa 1840
BOX: three-tier with brass corner mounts and drop-down handles, brass cartouche to the top lid and mother-of-pearl roundel to the front, baize lining, brass gimbal and brass bezel with convex glass; box key -- 194 mm. square
DIAL: silvered and engraved, with Roman chapters, eight day up/down ring at XII and seconds ring at VI, signed FRENCH, Royal Exchange/LONDON NO.4900, all hands of blued steel -- 110 mm. diameter
MOVEMENT: two-tier plates with escapement positioned on a sub-assembly, chain and fusee with maintaining power, signed on the top plate French Royal Exchange LONDON NO.4900, Earnshaw-type escapement with cut-bimetallic balance and flat strip steel detent, segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring; winding key

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

Sold with seven rating certificates dating from 1913-1922.

Two chronometer makers named French are recorded, William and Santiago James Moore, and it is likely they were related. Probably the present chronometer is the work of the latter, who is listed at 86 Cornhill, Royal Exchange, during the period 1839-1841.