Antique Bliss and Creighton Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 11/29/2001
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Catalog Description:

Two-day marine box chronometer with special patented balance and 56-hour winding indicator. Bliss & Creighton, New York, circa 1845. Bliss & Creighton, New York, No. 1482, circa 1845. Fine and very rare, two-day marine box chronometer with special patented balance and 56-hour winding indicator. C. brass bowl with threaded glazed bezel gimbaled in three-body brass-bound mahogany box with glazed panel in the top under hinged lid with fitted catch, flush fitted brass handles and circular ivory plate with the signature, Breguet-type key in a corner plate, key-lock in front, gimbals ring locked by swiveling arm pressing sideways against the base of the cylinder. D. silvered, Roman hour numerals, Arabic seconds on subsidiary dial at 6 o'clock, up/down indicator at 12 o'clock. Blued steel "Spde" hands. M. 80 mm, brass full plate, turned pillars, secured by screws, fusee and chain, Earnshaw spring-detent escapement, Bliss's patented cut-bimetallic compensation balance with wedged temperature adjustment weight and mean time adjustment nuts, freesprung helical balance spring. Signed on the dial and the box. The box is fitted with a label from Cornelius Knudsen, "By Appointment to the Court of Denmark", who overhauled the chronometer in July of 1945. Dim. height 18cm, width and depth 17cm

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