English gold precision watch with 36h power reserve Circa 1910

Gold pocket chronometer
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An exquisite English 18 carat gold hunting cased precision watch with 36 hour power reserve made by Victor Kullberg in London, circa 1910. The 2/3 plate movement with chain and fusee, either key or crown winding, a spring chronometer escapement, gold screw compensation balance, free swinging, blued, cylindrical balance spring and diamond set endstone on the balance. White enamel dial with Roman hour numerals, an outer minute track, power reserve indication at 3 o’clock, subsidiary seconds at 9 and blued spade hands. A plain case with the monogram WF on the front and case maker’s mark FT for Frederick Thoms, the cuvette with the dedication engraving Presented to Revd. William Fulton B.Sc.BD by Robert Sutherland 18th October 1913. Comes with the original presentation box. Dial and movement signed and numbered,
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Weight: 152 g
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Signed: Victor Kullberg London
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Victor Kullberg was born in 1824 in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. From 1840, he was apprenticed to a chronometer maker and, after completing his training, worked for Louis Urban Jürgensen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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In 1851, Kullberg went to London for the World Exhibition. He then stayed in England and worked as a marine and pocket chronometer maker, for which he developed a number of innovations. For his high quality movements and the performance of his new auxiliary compensation, Victor repeatedly received ratings in chronometer tests worldwide and was awarded numerous gold and silver medals.
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Because of his worldwide trade and international reputation, he was selected as chronometer maker for the Swedish and Norwegian navies in 1874, and the head of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich said of one of Kullberg’s clocks that took part in the Greenwich tests in 1882 that this was “the best chronometer ever tested there”. 
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Kullberg remained unmarried, but had two sons. After his death on July 7th, 1890, they inherited the business together with Kullberg’s nephew Peter John Wennerstrom. After Kullberg’s sons died, Wennerstrom and his son bought the remaining shares in the company, which was later continued by Sanfrid Lindquist until the premises were destroyed in World War II.
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William Fulton was born in 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended universities in Glasgow, Marburg and Berlin and completed his studies with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and astronomy. In 1913, Fulton married Annie Ida Sutherland. He worked as a pastor and as a professor of theology in England, Scotland and Ireland and was editor of many theological writings.