A fine quality mahogany two day marine chronometer by Victor Kullberg, London, numbered 9184, dated 1916.

Date: 1916
Height: 20cm Width: 18.5cm Depth: 18.5cm
Price: Sold

A fine quality fully serviced two day marine chronometer numbered 9184, by Victor Kullberg, London, dated 1916.

The high quality spotted plate movement is marked with the broad arrow and numbered 9184.

The fusee, with stop-work and Harrison's maintaining power, having a pipe around the winding square. Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement. and a two-arm balance with helical balance steel spring.

The chronometer is mounted in the original three-tier mahogany box with a push-catch for the lid and lock for upper half, the push-catch and lock are surrounded by shaped brass inserts. The top of the lid having a plain brass shield-shaped insert. The inside of the upper half has a brass label/rating document holder.

On the front of the upper half is screwed a rectangular brass tablet inscribed ‘V. KULLBERG / TWO DAYS / 9184 with a broad arrow, dated 1916.

Liverpool flush handles to the case sides, brass gimbals and numbered brass movement bowl.

The original numbered 9184 ratchet-winding tipsy key.

The silvered-brass dial having Roman numerals and a large seconds dial with Arabic ten-second figures with straight batons at alternate five-second intervals. The dial is inscribed to the centre;

'VICTOR KULLBERG, Maker to the Admiralty. THE INDIAN & ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS, 105 Liverpool Rd London. N.’

Within the seconds dial is the number 9184 and the broad arrow. The up-and-down dial, below XII, is marked with Arabic numerals in eight-hour intervals up to 56 and is marked 'UP' above zero and 'DOWN' above 56.

This high quality chronometer is in fine original condition with the movement fully serviced and rated by our FBHI and Worshipful Clockmakers Company awarded horologist.

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Victor Kullberg (1824–1890) was born in Visby on the Island of Gotland, Sweden. He was trained by the Swedish chronometer maker Victor Soderburg in Stockholm in 1840 and emigrated to London in 1851, having moved to his permanent address at 105 Liverpool Road, N1, by 1870. During his lifetime Kullberg gained many medals and awards for his chronometers and enjoyed a truly international reputation. As well as supplying many foreign governments, he regularly submitted chronometers for the Annual Trials at Greenwich Observatory, gaining first place in 1864 with a chronometer fitted with his newly invented ‘flat rim’ balance.

His inventions included several designs of compensation balance and improvements to keyless winding for pocket watches. He also designed the automatic gas-governor for controlling the temperature of the chronometer testing ovens at the Observatory. More than 500 chronometers by Kullberg were supplied to the Royal Navy alone and he can be said to have been one of the 19th century’s finest chronometer makers. On Kullberg’s death in 1890 the firm was taken over by George and Peter Wennerstrom, themselves succeeded by Sanfrid Lundquist who had joined the firm in 1894 and who moved the firm to Cranford in Middlesex in 1938, trading under the name of Victor Kullberg until his death in 1947.