Barrauds & Lund

A small London ship's chronometer with 2 days power reserve

Sold

estimated

3.000—5.000 €

Price realized

4.800 €

Our current catalogue

specific features

Case

Mahogany box.

Dial

Silvered, digital power reserve indication.

Movement

Brass movement, 76 mm, chain/fusee, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, heavy screw compensation balance according to Pennington.

Case no.2/707

Diam.145 x 150 x 145 mm

Circa1819

Ctry.England

According to "Paul Philip Barraud" by Cedric Jagger (p. 128), this fine chronometer was delivered to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in about 1820 and then sold to F.M. Vowell in 1927.