Lot 66

Hewitt & Son

Maker to the Admiralty

A collection of 4 ship's chronometers and 1 deck watch
A London ship's chronometer with 56h power reserve

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Thomas Hewitt was born in Prescot, Lancashire, in 1799, and moved to London in 1812. He is recorded as working as a chronometer maker at various addresses, including 12 Upper Ashley Street, Clerkenwell, around 1840, and 34 Windsor Terrace, City Road, from 1856 to at least 1859; with James Hewitt at Atherton Street, Prescot, Lancashire, as Hewitt Brothers from about 1854 to 1872, and then at Montague Road until 1876, which was the main center for the construction of chronometer movements at that time. Thomas developed various forms of compensating unrest; he died in 1867. His son, Thomas J. P. Hewitt, born in Atherton, Lancashire, in 1833, worked with his father in King Street, Tower Hill City, London. He was a director of the British Watch Company and in 1863 was elected to the council of the British Horological Institute, of which he became vice president. Thomas J. P. Hewitt died in 1918 in Balham, South London.