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An English mahogany cased chronometer No. 469 by Eiffe, 48…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
16-Jun-2013
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Description:
An English mahogany cased chronometer No. 469 by Eiffe, 48 Lombard Street city and south crescent, Bedford square, London, circa 1845, the silvered dial with Roman numerals, fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw style spring detent escapement with compensating balance and helical spring, set into the potence plate in the manner of Arnold, subsidiary seconds and up/down dials, the brass bowl in a mahogany brass bound three tiered case with swing handles, ivory plaque and signed movement, 16 cm wide, 17.5 cm deep, the dial 9 cm diameter. Provenance: Sotheby's Australia Connoisseur's Collection catalogue, Melbourne, 27 & 28 October 2009 Sotheby's Australia Decorative Art Auction, Melbourne, July 24, 1989, lot 134 Accompanying additional information Sotheby's Australia Newsletter No. 2, August 1989, reporting on the auction in which the chronometer appeared. The chronometer was consigned to Sotheby's by a Mr. J. Kingston Stuart. A handwritten note on a transfer share certificate from Mr. Kingston Stuart read as follows: 'This refers to a small company formed to find Lassiter's Reef - no luck of course - anyway I bought the chronometer which was used by Charles Ulm who went with the expedition as navigator, the same man who was Kingsford Smith's companion on all his epoch making air route pioneering - I don't know if this was used on any of Smithy's air voyages. I also had Ulm's sextant but he called for the sextant back and of course I returned it.'
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Category:
Horology (Clocks & watches): Marine Chronometers