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Timekeeper & Sundial & Compass & Barograpf

Gilded sundial or 'Horologiu Aequinocti '

Box-shaped gold-plated brass universal equinoctial sundial with lid and hanging eye. The lid serves as a universal equinoctial sundial. The engravings and decorations with leaf and flower motifs are blacked.
Dated 1572. Probably not used at sea.

1572

Lapis Polaris Magnes, Stradanus, Engraving by Philips Galle

1591 Phls Galle Engraving: Lapis Polaris Magnes. From Nova repertes illustrating the invention of the Compass

1591

Nocturnal in Boxwood

English nocturnal for ‘ Both Bears’

1640

Brass Sundial made by Johannis Dickens in Amsterdam

Early rare Dutch compass with Dutch wind direction. Roman hours on outer ring, and gnomon that can be lowered during transportation

1670

Sundial, Ian van Sÿchen Fecit Gandaui 5ien 24

Rare silver Belgian sundial signed by Jan van Sÿchen made circa 1670

1670

Clock by Bernard Vander Cloesen, design by Christiaan Huygens

Important clock designed by Christiaan Huygens, who did seatrials to find longitude at sea, 120 years after the suggestion by Gemma Frisius, and 100 years before Harrison's Chronometer.

1690

Clock by Johannes Van Ceulen, design of Christiaan Huygens

Important clock designed by Christiaan Huygens, who did seatrials to find longitude at sea, 120 years after the suggestion by Gemma Frisius, and 100 years before Harrison's Chronometer.

1690

Early Lodestone

17th or early 18th century. probably Continental. To remagnetisise the compass needle.

1700

Maritime Hour-glass of 30 min

Typical marine hour-glass to measure the 'glasses' of the watch

1700

Universal Ringdial

Dutch or Spanisch universal ringdial in leather cover

1700

Ring Dial

Dutch. Anonymous but dated ‘1719’ with handle.

1719

Universal Ring Dial on a stand, by Benjamin Scott

Large ring on stand, Nautical Quadrant on backside

1725

Dry Compass Joseph Roux

Early Franch dry compass by the family Roux in Marseille’

1750

Hourglass of one hour from Joseph Roux

Early French Hour-glass of 60 minutes to be used on a ship during times of stress , by the Roux Family . Normally an hour-glass of 30 minutes is used.

1750

28 sec Wooden LOG GLASS

Classic wooden hourglass, running 28 seconds

1800

28 sec Brass Log-glass

Brass Log glass 28 sec used in Royal Navy

1800

Marine Brass Hour Glass by Nairne

Hourglass by Nairne. from the HMS Amelia

1812

Maritime Barometer Stebbing

Maritime Stick Barometer with thermometer. Signatuur: 'Geo. Stebbing. +/_ 1825 Portsmouth.
Gimbaltic suspention. Thermometer with Fahrenheit + Réaumur

1825

14 sec Brass Log-glass

Hourglass, Glass and Brass, used as Log-glass with 14 sec duration. In the lid we find the inscriptions 1827 and 14. Can be closed by rotation of the inner cylinder. Orange collared Silicate.

1827

Chronometer Breguet & Fils

n/a

1830

Chronometer Winnerl Nr 235 Paris +/-1849

Important French Chronometer in Mahogany box, signed and numbered

1849

Chinees Geomantic Compass

compass includes Chiniese ten Celestial or Heavenly Stems, 1850 according to coin, or 1950 according to printplate?

1850

Chronometer Hohwü

Important Dutch chronometer by Andreas Hohwü from Amsterdam

1857

Gimballed maritime Compass

Singer’s Patent. England Make: ?Nr.: 10041

1861

Chronometer E. Dent & Co, N.° 3047

1860-75 E. Dent & Co. ‘Chronometer Maker to the Queen’. London with rare 24-hour silvered dialplate

1865

Portrait of Christiaan Huygens

1880

Telltale Compass

Laat 19 th Sewill Liverpool-Glasgow-London Noord en Oost mooi versierd

1890

HA-HY Course corrector

Bain & Ainsley 1895 Kent England Pat Nr 6573 Nr 2516

1895

German Typhoon-barometer or Cyclonometer

Barometer from the Manilla type by Schmidt & Ziegler Remscheid

1910

Deckwatch or Chronometer by Ulysse Nardin

A deckwatch from the famous chronometer maker firm Ulysse Nardin, fitted in its original box with key.

1940

Sestrel Reddingsboot Compass

SESTREL. London Cardanische ophanging. geen lamp Serienummer B4/36083L/70

1940

Sestrel Bearing Compass

Barking & London Nr. 14671. With illumination In nice box

1947

Compass Reserve Zeebrugse visser

23.5 cm compass R8650

1950

Sun-Compass or Sun Shadow Board

Reconstruction of a Sun-Compass and Sun Shadow Board according to artefact found in the ruins of a Benedictine convent in Uunartoq, Greenland, in 1948
Is was probably used by Greenland Vikings about 1200

2016

Sunstone

Icelandic Calcite. Cordierite or Iceland spar. Used by Vikings in 800-1050 to find the sun in cloudy weather or beneath the horizon

2017

Antikythera mechanism

Replica of the Antikythera mechanism, on show in the Archeological museum of Athens

2024

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