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Thank you so much. I will tryThe first place and a fun one to explore is the Portobello road antiques area. Several old watch dealers operate there, It will not be cheap but someone there might have a case.
Hi Miguel,
Yes, I know where it came from! The term 'chronometer' was rather loosely applied, (and indeed still is), not necessarily describing an instrument with a detent escapement and usually a free-sprung balance, although some pocket chronometers didn't use the helical balance spring.
Regards,
Graham
I think there may have been an element of that, but there were other usages at the time, also applied to escapements that weren't detents, such as the 'half-chronometers' sold by Barraud & Lunds and other prominent retailers. These were lever watches with compensated balances properly adjusted for heat and cold, as true chronometer balances were, but since it isn't possible to tell if a balance has been properly adjusted simply by its appearance, some less scrupulous makers did use the name as a marketing ploy on their unadjusted watches.So... In 1870 they cheated the future buyers making more atractive the watch signing "Chronometer" on dial??
Yes of course!I hope we also get to see the finished project. Thanks for sharing.
Keith R...
JohnTo my knowledge your example is the only one constructed on a frame by John Wycherley of Prescot (JW).
This looks to be a nice lever watch with a center seconds hand and not a chronometer in any usual sense of the term.