Longcase clock regulator by Kullberg

Regulator clock signed Victor Kullberg, London, 1900. Silver dial with central minute hand and ‘fly-back’ hour hand. 8-day movement numbered 6687 with jewelled dead-beat escapement and electric contact springs. Reiffer compensated pendulum.

Clockmakers' Museum No. 740.

Made after Kullberg’s death by his partner Sanfrid Lundquist. Lundquist, maker of the apparatus used to broadcast the ‘six pips’ used this regulator from 1900 to 1944 to time Kullberg chronometers.

Details

Category:
Clockmakers
Collection:
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Object Number:
L2015-3614
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), glass, mercury and wood (unidentified)
type:
longcase clock regulator
credit:
Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers