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T. S. & J. D. NEGUS, 100 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, NO. 582. A GOOD SMALL ROSEWOOD CASED 2 DAY CHRONOMETER. CIRCA 1872. The dovetailed and rosewood veneered case is of three tier construction with ebony detailing to the inside. It has a navy and gold trade label in the observation lid signed ‘A. Stowell, Jr. Baltimore Chronometer Manufactory, 163 Baltimore Street’ offering their services in supplying and maintaining chronometers. It also has a small stamp/label from the Ministry of Culture in Cuba when the chronometer was exported from Havana in 1997. The silvered engraved 3½" dial is signed ‘T. S. & J. D. Negus, 100 Wall St, New York, No. 582’. It has fine gold spade and pointer hands and a simple gold hand to the up and down dial. The seconds dial has a delicate counter balanced blued steel hand. The two day chronometer movement has a chain fusee with maintaining power and a diamond end stone with a blued steel helical spring and a cut and compensated bi-metallic balance. The plates are spotted and the bowl and dial plate are numbered 582. Dimensions: 7" (18 cm.) square. Thomas Stewart Negus trained in England. He worked with his brother, John David Negus, at the Washington Observatory trials in 1886. It is stated Thomas was established in 1848. They worked from various addresses in New York, but appear to have moved to 100 Wall Street in 1869. Tony Mercer comments that most of their movements conform with Lancastrian workmanship. Further details:- ‘Chronometer Makers of the World’ by Tony Mercer. |