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Victor Kullberg frühes Taschenchronometer „reversed fusée“ (1872) Taschenuhr

Pre-owned () | Year of production 1872 | No original box | No original papers
£1,747
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Basic Info
Listing code 8VBR34
Reference number No. 2002
Movement Manual winding
Case material Silver
Year of production 1872
Condition
Scope of delivery
No original box, no original papers
Gender Men's watch/Unisex
Location Germany, Stuttgart
Price €1,990 (= £1,747) [Negotiable]
Availability Item is in stock

Caliber
Movement Manual winding
Caliber/movement No. 2002
Power reserve 32 h
Number of jewels 19
Frequency 17280 A/h

Case
Case material Silver
Case diameter 52 mm
Thickness 13 mm
Water resistance Not water resistant
Bezel material Silver
Crystal Mineral Glass

Other
Small seconds, Tempered blue hands

Description
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worldwide the only kullberg pocket chronometer on CHRONO24

Victor Kullberg, 105 Liverpool Road London, early pocket chronometer "reversed fusée" (1872), No. 2002, 52 mm, 111 g - Rarity
(A later Kullberg pocket chronometer, No. 4174 Hunter, is in The British Museum in London).

Beautiful preserved enamel dial, signed and numbered
Black Roman numerals with dash numerals
Blued hands in pear shape (Spade)
Small recessed second on the 6
Silver case (925 Sterling), stepped, smooth
Hallmarks on lid and dust cover (925 Sterling)
Case with slight signs of wear
Cover glass without damage
Intact hinges and tightly closing lids
1/2 plate movement, granular gold-plated
Work elaborately and extensively signed
Blued factory screws
Typical English pointed-tooth lever escapement
Set diamond cap jewel (balance wheel)
Capstones on anchor and gear wheel shaft
2 triple, 2 double screwed gold chatons
Stepless drive chain/worm "reversed fusée
Key lift (key not original)
Gold screw balance (compensation balance)
Blued balance spring
2-fold screwed balance plate

The movement, which is beared in screwed gold chatons from the escapement wheel to the minute wheel, is of highest quality and in very good condition.

Signature Werk Victor Kullberg 105 Liverpool Road London, Gold Medals Paris 1867 Havre 1868, Werknummer No. 2002, signature Maker to the Admiralty with anchor in circle with crown and signature Prize Medals Awarded with 1860, 1862, 1864 in circle with crown.

hallmarks CASE/cuvette movement number 2002, Silver Mark walking lion (fineness 925), City Mark Chester (sword with 3 sheaves), Chester Date Letter x (1861), Maker's Mark hh (Harrison Brothers & Howson, Sheffield)

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Movement no. 2002 shows the curved bridge for escapement and escapement wheel, which is typical for Victor Kullberg. It is said that Joseph Preston, one of the best English frame producers of his time, exclusively supplied Kullberg with this special ebauche.

"reversed fusée": The diagonal chain guide with worm and barrel rotating in opposite directions reduces the pressure on the bearing journal of the worm shaft and optimises the force flow of the stepless drive. Originally proposed by the French watchmaker Julien Le Roy, this chain guide for the fusee became Victor Kullberg's trademark.

Victor Kullberg
Victor Kullberg was born in 1824 in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. From 1840 he was apprenticed to a chronometer manufacturer, and after completing his apprenticeship worked for Louis Urban Juergensen in Copenhagen. In 1851, Kullberg went to London for the World's Fair; he then remained in England and worked as a manufacturer of marine and pocket chronometers, for which he developed several innovations. For its high-quality movements and the performance of its new auxiliary compensation, Kullberg has repeatedly received ratings in chronometer tests worldwide and has been awarded numerous gold and silver medals. Because of his worldwide trade and international reputation, he was chosen as the chronometer manufacturer for the Swedish and Norwegian navies in 1874, and the head of the Royal Greenwich Observatory said of one of Kullberg's watches that took part in the Greenwich tests in 1882 that this was "the best chronometer ever tested there". Kullberg remained unmarried but had two sons. After his death on July 7, 1890, they inherited the business together with Kullberg's nephew Peter John Wennerstrom. After the death of Kullberg's sons, Wennerstrom and his son in turn bought the remaining shares in the company, which was later continued by Sanfrid Lindquist until the premises were destroyed in the Second World War.
Source: Paul M. Chamberlain, "It's about Time", New York 1941, p. 435ff or catalogue auction house Dr. Crott

Documentation London metropolitan archives, kullberg, victor, Manufacturing book (nos. 1790-2613), 1870 - 1881, Former reference: ms 14537

Documentation the British museum, Kullberg Hunter No. 4174, Museum number 1958,1201.1030

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