100,000 HKD
FAVRE & ANDRIE TOURBILLON AND THERMOMETER SILVER Favre & Andrie, Locle, Swiss, No. 34878. Made circa 1880. Very fine and extremely rare sterling silver key-wound pocket Chronometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator, spring detent escapement, free-sprung balance spring and thermometer in Réaumur, Centigrade and Fahrenheit. Accompanied by a key. Four-body, massive, "bassine et filets," engine- turned back, transparent hinged cuvette with winding aperture, reeded band. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, thermometer sector at 12 in Réaumur, Centigrade and Fahrenheit, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. 45 mm.(21'''), nickel-plated, bar caliber, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm cut bimetallic compensation balance with Earnshaw type gilt wedge temperature compensation weights, blued steel free- sprung flat balance spring, polished steel carriage. Notes Dial signed. DIAM. 57 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-07-09
