Chronometer maker
Victor Kullberg
Also recorded as: Kullberg, Victor
Swedish-born London chronometer maker who repeatedly topped the Greenwich trials.
Born in Visby on Gotland, Kullberg settled in London in 1851. His marine and pocket chronometers, with refined compensation balances, won many first places in the Royal Observatory's annual trials, and he supplied navies across Europe.
- Country
- England (born Sweden)
- City / centre
- London
- Life / active
- 1824–1890
- Status
- Historical individual
- Key people
- Victor Kullberg
Innovations & specialities
- Precision marine and pocket chronometers
- Auxiliary compensation balances
Works by Victor Kullberg in the catalogue
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Movements & Components · 1860-1880
Compensation balance by Victor Kullberg, London, England, 1860-1880.
Science Museum Group, London
Instruments · 1870-1877
Chronometer by Kullberg, Victor, England, 1870-1877
Science Museum Group, London
Pocket Watches · circa 1890
Victor Kullberg Chronometer, circa 1890
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
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