A9055
Large Silver Pocket Chronometer Deck Watch
£7,200.00
Signed A Ericsson St. Petersburg
Hallmarked London 1899
Hallmarked London 1899
A fine large late 19th Century chronometer with power reserve indication in a silver open face case.
Diameter 64 mm Depth 15 mm
Out of stock
Description
A fine large late 19th Century chronometer with power reserve indication in a silver open face case. Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement, Harrison's maintaining power. Plain cock with diamond endstone, freesprung compensation balance with helical blue steel hairspring. Earnshaw spring detent chronometer escapement, screwed in jewelling, escape pivots with endstones. Signed white enamel dial with subsidiaries for seconds and power reserve, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Substantial large plain silver open face case with gold hinges, maker's mark “F.T” in an oval.
A fine example of late full plate chronometer deck watch in excellent condition. Although signed for St Petersburg the watch is almost certainly of English manufacture, probably by Kullberg who is said to have supplied all his chronometers. August Ericsson, 1842-1910, opened a workshop in St. Petersburg, Russia about1875. He supplied marine chronometers to the Imperial Russian Navy. He often used movements from chronometer maker Victor Kullberg, also from Sweden who set up business in England in 1856. Celebrated casemaker Fred Thoms moved to 41 Spencer Street, Clerkenwell in 1889
