Lot 389

Victor Söderberg, Stockholm, Movement No. 293, 195 x 187 x 190 mm, circa 1860
A rare ship's chronometer with 56h power reserve indicator und Söderbergs patentierter Chronometerhemmung
Case: mahogany. Dial: silvered. Movm.: brass movement, chain/fusee, heavy chronometer balance with 4 weights and 2 screws.
Victor Söderberg (died in 1860 or 1866) apprenticed from 1819 to 1825 in Karlskrona. Later he worked in Visby from 1825 to 1840 and then went to Stockholm, where he established the first chronometer workshop in Sweden; the famous Victor Kullberg was one of his apprentices there.
The pivoted detent escapement Söderberg used for this watch has an unusually shaped impulse roller on the balance. The wheel is large and solid and sits above the plate instead of below as is customary.

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