Austrian deck watch for the imperial Austrian navy Circa 1905

Heavy silver almost as new deck chronometer by Anton Hawelk
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An almost as new Austrian deck watch for the imperial Austrian navy with spring detent escapement and mahogany transport box, circa 1905.
Silver, polished, tiered case. Signed, numbered, enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, auxiliary seconds, and blued spade hands. Signed, keywind, frosted gilt full plate movement, ébauche (rough sketch): V. Kullberg, with chain/fusee, spring detent escapement, screwed chatons, gold screw chronometer balance, free-sprung blued helical hairspring, and diamond endstone on balance.
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Diameter: 60 mm
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Weight: 210 g
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Signed: Anton Hawelk Vienna
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Anton Hawelk, Austrian watchmaker
Anton (Josef) Hawelk (also Harvelk or Hawelka) was an excellent watchmaker working in Vienna in the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century and also worked for the Vienna University Observatory.
There are high-quality observation clocks and wall clocks from him. The use of Riefler’s pendulums at this early period towards the end of the 19th century shows that his precision pendulum clocks in particular were of the best quality. Hawelk used works by Alex Huning and Vacheron & Constantin for its pocket watches. He delivered observation watch No. 560 for the Imperial and Royal Navy of Austria-Hungary.
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Victor Kullberg, Swedish watchmaker
(Jacob) Victor Kullberg was born on August 13, 1824, in Visby on the island of Gotland. He was the son of Johan Kullberg (1800-1876) and Hedvig Christina Ahlström (1801-1840) . He was the eldest son from a family with 6 sons, 3 of whom died shortly after birth.
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From 1840, Kullberg completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker with a local watch and chronometer maker Victor Söderberg. His further professional training was carried out by the most famous watchmaker in Scandinavia, Louis Urban Jürgensen, in Copenhagen. At the age of 27, he travelled to the World Exhibition in London in 1851, where he made contacts with other chronometer makers. He then opened his own factory at 105 Liverpool Road in 1856. There were marine chronometers and precision pocket watches made.
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Characteristic of his marine chronometers is the chain and worm drive in the reversed fusee (crossed chain) arrangement, a chain guide for the worm proposed by the French watchmaker Julien Le Roy. This design significantly reduces the pressure on the journals of the worm shaft compared to the version with a non-crossing chain. Kullberg also created pocket watches with a chronometer escapement, a crown winding system designed by him and a toothed barrel. His chronometers were characterized by very well thought-out constructions and neat craftsmanship.