The chronometer attained fame because of the mutiny on the "Bounty". The timekeeper was taken by the mutineers following the loss of the "Bounty", for which Bligh subsequently apologised to Sir Harry Parker. It returned to England many years later after an odyssey. The American ship's captain Mayhew Folger rediscovered Pitcairn Island in 1808 and was given the chronometer by the one remaining mutineer there, John Adams. The Spanish governor of Juan Fernandez Island confiscated the watch. The chronometer was later purchased for three doubloons by a Spaniard named Castillo. When he died, his family conveyed it to Captain Herbert of HMS "Calliope", which sailed from Valparaiso on 1 July 1840, who gave it to the British Museum around 1840.