Gold reverse fusee chronometer by Kullberg Circa 1886

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Kenmerk
PA0357
Diameter
53 mm
Estimate
€ 7.500 - 15.000
Price sold
€ 16.000
Gold keyless fusee chronometer by Kullberg
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A fine English keyless reverse fusee chronometer by Kullberg with power reserve indication in a gold open faced case, hallmarked London circa 1886. Gilt half plate keyless movement with reverse fusee and chain. Harrison’s maintaining power. Plain cock with diamond endstone. Compensation balance with white metal helical hairspring. Earnshaw-type chronometer escapement with short detent spring. Screwed in jewelling including the arbors of the fusee, escape pivots with endstones. Signed and numbered white enamel dial with subsidiaries for power reserve and seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Substantial plain 18-carat open face case, gold cuvette with apertures to allow the watch to be wound and set by key if desired. Gold handset under the back cover which also disables the winding crown when the cover is closed.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Signed: Victor Kullberg 105 Liverpool Road London
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Pocket watch in excellent condition which has many features associated with accurate timekeeping of the period. Victor Kullberg was born in Sweden in 1824 and moved to London in 1851 where he established a business making fine watches and chronometers. In addition to selling under his own name he also supplied to many English retailers. He almost always used the fusee in a reverse configuration to reduce friction and wear on the arbors. He experimented with balances on his chronometers patenting flat rim varieties. His chronometers won many medals for their timekeeping in the later half of the 19th Century. The firm continued making chronometers after his death in 1890. 

Signed: Victor Kullberg 105 Liverpool Road London

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