Deck watch 9017

F7231-003

Deck watch 9017 Long Caption: Silver, open face cased, keyless, centre-seconds deck watch. Two-tier mahogany deck box (much altered) with a brass insert holding the watch under a screwed brass bezel. The silver open-face case is hallmarked for London 1915-16 and is stamped with the sponsors mark ‘T.R.A.’ (Thomas Richard Arnott of Coventry) and is numbered ‘52797’. The watch has a gilt winding crown and brass push-piece for hand setting at one o’clock. The two-piece, centre seconds white enamel, has black roman numerals, Arabic fifths of seconds figures, and is signed below XII: ‘KULLBERG / LONDON / 9017 / ↑’. It has polished blued steel spade and poker hands with a fine pointer blued steel second hand with a counter poised tail. It also has a gilt-brass half-plate keyless going barrel movement with four turned pillars fixed with polished and blued steel screws. The top of the half plate is engraved: ‘Victor Kullberg, 105 Liverpool Road London / ↑ / No.9017’. The watch has a ratchet tooth lever escapement with free-sprung compensation balance and blued steel spiral balance spring, with over coil. Jewelled to the centre wheel. The complete watch is cased and with movement almost finished, was first supplied to Kullberg’s by J.G.Morrall of Coventry in July 1915. Finishing work took place quickly over the next few months until December 1915 when the Admiralty ordered the watch. It was delivered in January 1916, costing £21. The watch was in Navy service through until 1965 and remained in the MoD workshops until 1972 when it was sent on loan to the NMM. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: ZAA0165 Artist: Victor Kullberg Date: circa 1915 Medium: metal: brass; metal: steel Size: Overall: 82 x 58 x 20 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.