Hier habe ich eine Uhr, die sehr selten ist und worüber nicht viel geschrieben wurde. Selbst im Londoner National Maritime Museum ist keine vorhanden.
Ich habe mir schon mal, in einem anderen Forum, die mühselige Arbeit gemacht und die Uhr (in englisch) beschrieben. Da mir die Multilingualität hier im Forum bekannt ist, werde ich auch keine Deutsche Übersetzung reinstellen :zwinkern:
kendal & Dent 1893
I was fortunate and found a deck watch from Kendal & Dent of London, in a mahogany case on the weekend. I thought I might share it with you, in the hope that I´ll learn more about it.
I was hoping there would be one in the National Maritime Museum London, which would have made things easier for me, but no such luck. I´ll have to go slog it out the hard way finding bits of information here and there.
It´s in a two piece Mahogany box, with an issue card from H.M. Chronometer Depot. Royal Navy, Bradford-on-Avon.
A mahogany deck box fitted with a brass piano hinge and a simple pressed brass clip-type catch. The top of the box has a circular Ivory Identity disk, on it has; Semi-Circular, kendal & Dent, in the middle the crowsfoot /I\, below that C W and the Serial no. 17296. The box contains a brass drum mounting in the base, shaped to the form of the watch, with a blue velvet-covered cork base inside.
It has a brass screw-down bezel with silvered site ring and bevelled glass. The inside lid is covered with blue baize and contains a brass-plated, folded steel label holder for an issue card. The bottom of the box is covered with green baize. The silver, open-face case has the winding/setting crown inset into a cylindrical pendant, with a hand-setting push piece on the side of the case to the left at '11 o'clock'. The plain silver, rolled-edge bezel has no fitting for a glass. The silver, double hinged back is machine engraved on the outside back 'H.S.(crowsfoot)/I\ 2'.
The case is in Sterling Silver with English Hallmarks.The inside of the back is stamped with the manufacturer's mark and 296, the Siver Hallmark is London. Dated to 1893.
Who was the silversmith/maker?
A white enamel dial of 50 mm Æ is signed Kendal & Dent/17296/ C (crowsfoot) /I\ W above the centre, and has a subsidiary seconds dial below. The dial has Roman numerals and the seconds dial has small Arabic ten-second figures. Polished, blued-steel spade hands and counter-balanced blued-steel seconds hand.
I haven´t found out anything about the movement up till now, but from what I can see the gilt movement has a 3/4 plate signed Kendal & Dent, 106, Cheapside London, The serial Nr. 17296 and again the (crowsfoot)/I\. The cut bimetallic compensation balance is mounted with 16 gold screws around the rim. The flat spiral, blued-steel balance spring, with over coil, has been mounted to the upper surface of the balance cock.The train is jewelled with red screwed-in stones. The balance and escape wheel have blued steel-set end stones.The going barrel has a large screwed in jewel setting.
All screws have been blued exept the two which fasten the movement to the case, these were polished.
The instrument is in fine, almost as new condition, with just a few marks on the wooden box.
If I have forgotten something, or made mistakes in my observation, please correct me!!!
Kendal & Dent were trading at 106 Cheapside, London from about 1881 untill about 1927 and were clock and watch makers. James Francis Kendal, who died in 1911, published a book entitled ‘A history of watches and other timekeepers’ in 1892. The company is listed in trade directories as watchmakers for 1882, 1891, 1899, 1902, 1910 and 1915. The listings added that they were also clockmakers, goldsmiths and jewellers but they always advertised under watchmakers.
Kendal and Dent, although well known for their clocks, also were watchmakers.
ZitatThe company supplied watches to the British Navy and were given the right, quite early on in their history, to mark their watches ‘Makers to the Admiralty’
. Unlike many fake watches with other names who claimed to be makers to the admiralty, Kendal and Dent actually were makers to the admiralty!
In Wesolowski’s book there is a picture of a Kendal & Dent watch with this inscription on it. Many of Kendal & Dent’s watches were Swiss made. In Ron Rose’s book, there is a picture of a very interesting dial clock by Kendal & Dent, though there is no other information about clocks there.
After the Great War (1914-1918) the Company raised the question "is it possible for us to produce a watch of equal precision to the foreign one at the same price or even 15% higher? if not we feel that the sinking of any large capital in such an undertaking is a losing propositon". This may well be why they disappear soon after this date.
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Gruß
Jimmy