New and antique barometers

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Whether you feel like taking your new soft-top car out for a spin, planning a boat trip or even going for a lovely family picnic in the park, a barometer tells you the potential forecast and could help you with your final decisions.
Barometers have been used for hundreds of years to measure atmospheric pressure and help predict the weather in the near future. Not only are they highly functional but also make a striking addition to any home.

COMITTI BRACKET BAROMETER

S CARR & SON

£258

This solid mahogany aneroid bracket barometer with 8-inch diameter open face enamel finish dial is typical of the finest quality barometers Comitti has been making for 150 years, earning an international reputation. S Carr and Sons has barometers and clocks to suit all tastes and offers a bespoke maintenance service for antique products.

BAROMETER

P A OXLEY

c. £8750

Uber loves this fine and high quality bow fronted mahogany stick barometer, circa 1835. The silvered brass scale is calibrated from 27in to 31in with sliding vernier and engraved with weather indications. The name of the makers - Watkins and Hill - is engraved to the top of the scale. The base has an ebonised boxwood urn cistern.

ANEROID BAROMETER

MET CHECK

£162.38

By Comitti London, this splendid barometer in a mahogany case has a 5in silver finish dial and a temperature controlled precision aneroid movement.

CHELSEA SHIP'S BELL BAROMETER

BELL CLOCKS

c£650

Look at it. It’s beautiful, it’s meant to be admired! This exquisite Chelsea Ship’s Bell Barometer has a 6-inch dial and traditional base which can have an engraved plate added if required.

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Centuries of Rise and Fall

The two main types of barometer are the Mercury Barometer and the Aneroid Barometer. They both react to changes in air pressure, but in different ways. With mercury barometers, which have not changed much in more than 350 years, a column of mercury inside a glass tube sealed at one end rises or falls with changes in the atmospheric pressure. The more complex aneroid (or analogue) barometer uses an aneroid cell which is a metal box containing a bellows and springs system which expands or contracts as air pressure changes.

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