29th Oct, 2014 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Wizard)
161
[M] JOHN CARTER MAHOGANY 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER...
the 4½in. silvered dial signed John Carter, Tooley Street, London, No. 134, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, 2-frame brass movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung white metal helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl with screw-down bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles -- 7½in. (19cm.) square approx.
John Carter worked at 207 Tooley Street between 1829 and 1859. He was a highly respected maker and this chronometer exhibits both the wedge-shaped weights and convex glass typical of Carter's work and also his own form of auxiliary compensation to the balance. Carter won the Greenwich Premium trials in 1834 and 1835, he was a maker to the Royal Navy and became Lord Mayor of London in 1857.
Sold for £4,340
Estimated at £2,500 - £3,500
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
Condition Report
In going order, movement with no obvious defects, dial with pleasing oxidation, nice box with good patination, one screw lacking for locking arm in box, top lid cracked across.
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the 4½in. silvered dial signed John Carter, Tooley Street, London, No. 134, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, 2-frame brass movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung white metal helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl with screw-down bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles -- 7½in. (19cm.) square approx.
John Carter worked at 207 Tooley Street between 1829 and 1859. He was a highly respected maker and this chronometer exhibits both the wedge-shaped weights and convex glass typical of Carter's work and also his own form of auxiliary compensation to the balance. Carter won the Greenwich Premium trials in 1834 and 1835, he was a maker to the Royal Navy and became Lord Mayor of London in 1857.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Wizard), 29th Oct, 2014
