Exclusive marine chronometer, Victor Kullberg, Maker to the Admiralty, London, no 4970, c. 1888.

Exclusive marine chronometer, Victor Kullberg, Maker to the Admiralty, London, no 4970, c. 1888.

Exclusive marine chronometer, Victor Kullberg, Maker to the Admiralty, London, no 4970, c. 1888. Op de verzilverde wijzerplaat de signering Victor Kullberg, Maker to the Admiralty en genummerd 4970. Massief gouden wijzers, met Romeinse cijfers. Uurwerk met 56 uurs gangreserve, wijzer Up-and-Down , Thomas Earnshaw spring detent chronometer echappement, snek en ketting, seconde wijzer, compensatie balans. Mahonie houten kast in drie delen met glazen deksel. Kullberg was gerenomeerd voor zijn 'superb escapements’ en maakte reputatie als een van Engelands beste chronometer- en horlogemakers. Zijn innovaties in marine-chronometers en andere uurwerkobjecten brachten hem gouden en zilveren onderscheidingen. HxBxD 19,5x18,5x18,5 cm. Prijs € 8.750,-- Literature: “Chronometer Makers of the World”, Tony Mercer. Literature: Paul M. Chamberlain "It's about Time", New York, page 435-437. Victor Kullberg was born at Visby on the island of Gothland, Sweden in 1824 and was apprenticed to a chronometer maker in 1840. On the completion of his training he was employed by Louis Urban Juergensen in Copenhagen, but was attracted to Britain at the time of the 1851 Exhibition. In Britain he remained as a maker of marine and pocket chronometers to which he brought several innovations. From 1860 onwards, thanks to the high quality of his machines and the efficiency of his new forms of auxiliary compensation, he consistently scored ratings in chronometrical competitions throughout the world and was awarded numerous gold and silver medals. With an international trade and reputation he was appointed chronometer maker to the Swedish and Norwegian navies in 1874 and, about a machine entered for the Greenwich trials of 1882, the Astronomer Royal reported that it was 'the finest chronometer they had ever had on trial'. Although unmarried, Kullberg had two sons.