Only Online Auction
Geneva, Apr 07, 2021
LOT 239
William B. Crisp
56-hour going marine chronometer, power reserve; mahogany and brass
CHF 800 - 1,600
EUR 720 - 1,440 / USD 850 - 1,700 / HKD 6,600 - 13,200
Sold: CHF 1,000
Mahogany and brass, 56-hour going, key-winding, marine chronometer, with bowl mounted on a gimbal (inside a two-body glazed box); silver colour dial with radial Roman numerals with subsidiary seconds at 6 and one horological complication:
· 56-hour power-reserve indication (sector at 12 o’clock)
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3-31 |
Good Transformations |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand William B. Crisp, London (81 St. John Street Road)
Model “Maker to the Admiralty”
Year circa 1860-1865
Movement No. 650
Case No. unnumbered
Material mahogany and brass
Diameter 125 mm. (bezel)
Caliber fusee and chain, spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with poising screws and blued steel free-sprung cylindrical hairspring
Height 140 mm.
Width 192 mm.
Thickness 189 mm.
Signature dial and movement
Accessories crank winding- and hand- setting brass key (numbered 5 134)
Notes
Crisp, William Baker (1825-1895)
Born in 1825, he’s recorded as working as a clockmaker in London at 81 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, from circa 1858 until 1865, before he moved to 174 St. John Street and finally to 133 Liverpool Road.
Crisp worked for the great chronometer maker Robert Molyneux and was a founder member of the British Horological Institute in 1858, becoming a well-known commentator on chronometer matters.
Crisp was made bankrupt in 1879 and died in the Clockmakers’ Asylum in New Southgate in 1895. His son of the same name was also known maker.
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