Y A LATE VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETERWHYTE, THOMSON ANDPANY, GLASGOW, CIRCA 1890four pillar full-plate single chain fee movement with spotted plates, Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw type spring detent escapement regulated by split bimetallic balance fitted with wedge-shaped and circular timing weights and helical balance spring, the 3.75 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with blued steel hands, subsidiary seconds incorporating serial number 5296, opposing lower power reserve dial and inscribed Whyte, Thomson, andp'y, MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY., GLASGOW & SOUTH SHIELDS to centre beneath engraved red HIGHEST AWARD EDINBURGH 1886 and SILVER MEDAL AWARDED, 1886 medallions, set in a lacquered brass bowl with screw-down bezel mounted within pivoted gimbals with locking screw, in a rosewood three-tier case with, inset brass strap reinforced edges, hinged brass side handles and later brass rectangular plate inscribed LICUNGO, MAPUTO over brass to front.18cm (7ins) square, 19.5cm (7.75ins) high. Whyte, Thomson andpany are recorded in Betts, Jonathan MARINE CHRONOMETERS AT GREENWICH as working between 1889 and 1934 initially from 142-44 Broomielaw, Glasgow. They were suppliers of Nautical Instruments, chronometers, clocks and watches who can trace their roots back to Greenock, where a former generation was based prior to moving to Glasgow in 1827. The father and son partner of James and James Whyte (circa 1836-74 and born 1860 respectively) took fellow apprentice of James Whyte senior, James Thomson, into the partner in 1889. By 1891 the biness employed around 70 workman and had a large workshop/factory called Neptune Works at Harmony Row, Govan. The firm exhibited and secured the silver medal at Edinburgh in 1886, and the diploma (the highest award) at Glasgow in 1888. By 1902 they had a branch at South Shields, County Durham and the Glasgow operations moved to 96 Hope Street in 1912. It was around this time that the biness had emerged from a dispute with Lord Kelvin and F.W. Clarke overpass payments; James Thomson retired in 1915 and the firm became a limitedpany in 1934 and traded until 1953.