Rare and unusual Danish silver pocket chronometer Circa 1820

Silver pocket chronometer by R. Bredrup 
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A very fine, rare and unusual Danish silver pocket chronometer, circa 1820. Matte gilt movement, detachable bridge for the going barrel, conical pillars, aperture for viewing the escape wheel, Earnshaw type spring footed detent escapement, large brass escape wheel, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Hinged silver cuvette engraved Carl Wildschiodtz, Kjobenhavn. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five minute numerals, original blued steel Breguet hands. Case engine turned à grains d’orge, mastermark PSV. Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: R. Bredrup Kiobenhavn
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This watch shows that Bredrup was very familiar with the watches made by Urban Jurgensen. Mechanically it is certainly derived from the design of Jurgensen’s movements and exhibits the same English feel filtered down from his time with Arnold. It is probable that Bredrup worked in Jurgensen’s workshop. Also in common with some of Jurgensen’s watches, it may have been finished at a much later date than its original construction.
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Reinholt Bredrup Recorded as working in Copenhagen in 1824.