Dutch marine chronometer signed and numbered on the dial Andreas Hohwü Amsterdam, No. 334, c. 1860

No. 170. Dutch marine chronometer signed and numbered on the dial Andreas Hohwü Amsterdam, No. 334, c. 1860.
The plain three-tier mahogany carrying case is of classic shape in the French tradition. The movement is contained in a gimballed brass bowl, which can be locked from the side by a slide and is accompanied by a Breguet key. The silvered brass dial is of traditional design, with central Roman chapter ring, and up-and-down dial above the middle, indicating the state of winding and below a second ring, both with blued steel hands, the time being indicated by two gold hands. The two day duration, brass plated movement has a single spring barrel, wound from beneath. It has a chain fusee, maintaining power; and an Earnshaw spring-detent escapement with a bimetallic compensation balance and blued steel helical spring. Dimensions 18x16x16 cm.
The maker, Andreas Hohwü, was born in Gravenstein, Schleswig-Holstein in 1803(d. 1885), so he had Danish nationality. He learnt the tricks of the trade from his father, a humble clockmaker. When he was 26 began to work for Kessels, a chronometer maker of Dutch origin, Altona, Hamburg in Germany and later for Maison Breguet in Paris from 1834 to 1839. After this he went to Amsterdam, where he had a business on the Oudeschans and worked as a chronometer maker for the Royal Dutch Navy. He was an outstanding clockmaker who received many prizes and medals.
Price € 14.500,--
Literature.
Mercer, T, Chronometer makers of the World, Malta, 2004, pp.164-165.
Morpurgo, E., Nederlandse klokken- en horlogemakers vanaf 1300. Page 59.