James Stratton
Director
Lot 121*
A good and rare mid 19th century two-day mahogany cased marine chronometer Charles Wieland, Limehouse, London, No. 63
2 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,500
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Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
A good and rare mid 19th century two-day mahogany cased marine chronometer
Charles Wieland, Limehouse, London, No. 63
The three-piece mahogany box brass carrying handles and bone escutcheon. The 3 inch silvered Roman dial with minute track and large subsidiary seconds enclosing the number 63, with (rubbed) power reserve indicator at III, distinctive blued steel hands and signed to the centre Charles Wieland, Limehouse London, The chain fusee movement with diamond endstone to the freesprung blued steel helical spring over a cut and compensated bimetallic balance and Earnshaw-type detent escapement with gold passing-spring. Ticking and sold with an old winding key. 13.5cms (5.25ins) high.
The three-piece mahogany box brass carrying handles and bone escutcheon. The 3 inch silvered Roman dial with minute track and large subsidiary seconds enclosing the number 63, with (rubbed) power reserve indicator at III, distinctive blued steel hands and signed to the centre Charles Wieland, Limehouse London, The chain fusee movement with diamond endstone to the freesprung blued steel helical spring over a cut and compensated bimetallic balance and Earnshaw-type detent escapement with gold passing-spring. Ticking and sold with an old winding key. 13.5cms (5.25ins) high.
Footnotes
Little is known about the chronometer maker Charles Wieland, who worked from 12 Warkworth Terrace, Commercial Road, in London's Limehouse docklands from around 1830. Interestingly, a six-month timekeeper by Wieland is held in the Sir David Salomons Collection in Jerusalem. Wieland secured Patent No. 2386 in October 1858 for an auxiliary balance design and is believed to have worked until around 1876.