Silver Deck Watch by Dent
£5,250.00
A fine mid 19th Century English chronometer in a silver open case and mahogany deck box. Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement, blue steel spring, barrel ratchet wheel and double toothed click on the barrel bridge. Harrison's maintaining power. Plain cock with diamond endstone in a gilt setting, large compensation balance with blue steel arms and rims, freesprung blue steel helical hairspring. Earnshaw type spring detent chronometer escapement, jewelled discharge and impulse stones. Screwed in jewelling, escape pivots with endstones. Signed and numbered white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Substantial plain silver open face case with gold hinges. Maker's mark "AT" and number corresponding to that on the movement. Fitted in a three tier mahogany deck box with brass furniture. Signed and numbered circular bone plaque set in the lid. Locking key attached to a signed and numbered brass disc.
A fine chronometer deck watch in excellent overall condition. Edward John Dent was one of the most eminent chronometer makers of the 19th Century. He won the commission to make Big Ben for the Houses of Parliament in 1852. He died on 8 March 1853, at the age of 62, the project was completed by his adopted son. This watch is one of the last bearing the signature of the firms founder E J Dent. Casemaker Alfred Thickbroom, 6 Spencer Street, Clerkenwell.
Technical Specifications
- Reference Number
- A11146
- Hallmarked London
- 1853
- Signed
- E J Dent - Watchmaker to the Queen - London
- Dimensions
- Diameter 57 mm Depth 15 mm
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