chronometer

Since 2002, I've managed the sale of ten out of the twelve highest priced artefacts belonging to Nelson including the undisclosed record price for his gold pocket watch. Here are some highlights of those and other memorable sales and exhibitions I've been involved with.

The watch which sailed with Charles Darwin »

An Historically Important Pocket Chronometer Present on the Second Voyage of HMS Beagle Accompanied Charles Darwin around the world from 1831 to 1836 and ashore to the Galapagos Islands. The most significant of the chronometers surviving from the voyage. An early 19th Century English chronometer by Parkinson & Frodsham. Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement, […]

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