Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London
- maker:
- Barraud family
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Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London, c.1822. Gimballed mahogany box, with brass plaque on lid, engraved 'Ship, Perseverance, W Mellish Esqre'. Missing ivory number tab to front. Within the glass of the lid are instructions by the chronometer-makers Brockbank and Atkins for how to wind and keep a chronometer. Engraved and silvered dial, with subsidiary seconds dial and aperture for 'up-and-down' indicator. Signed on the dial 'Barrauds, London, 997'. Movement with spring detent escapement, two-arm balance with stops limiting movement and barrel raised above top plate. Fixed winding key. Signed ‘Barrauds Cornhill London 997’ on movement. Bequeathed to the Museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers by Samuel Elliot Atkins, 1898. Clockmakers' Museum No. 617
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3494
- Materials:
- mahogany (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), silvered brass, glass and baize
- Measurements:
-
overall: 140 mm x 155 mm x 135 mm,
dial: 90 mm
- type:
- marine chronometer and detent
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
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