Lot Essay
In 1851 Charles Shepherd made the first master-clock and automatic 'dropping' of the Greenwich Time-Ball and slave 'sympathetic' clock (Mercer, Chronometer Makers of the world N.A.G Press 1991, page 237)
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CHARLES SHEPHERD NO. 1194, CIRCA 1890
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A LATE VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Charles Shepherd No. 1194, circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Charles Shepherd Maker To The Royal Navy, Leadenhall Street, London, 1194, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary up-and-down dial with gold hand, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, segmental heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound rosewood box, the centre section with inset (unsigned) bone disc, external brass drop handles, inside the top lid the trade label - Felix Martin, Swansea cleaned May 1917
95 mm. dial diam. box; 170 mm. sq. approx
Charles Shepherd No. 1194, circa 1890
The silvered dial signed and numbered Charles Shepherd Maker To The Royal Navy, Leadenhall Street, London, 1194, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary up-and-down dial with gold hand, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hand, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance, segmental heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier brass-bound rosewood box, the centre section with inset (unsigned) bone disc, external brass drop handles, inside the top lid the trade label - Felix Martin, Swansea cleaned May 1917
95 mm. dial diam. box; 170 mm. sq. approx
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