39,100 CHF
Albert H. Potter, Newark, New Jersey 1900. Fine and very rare ebonised small long case weight driven regulator. Architectural, ebony veneered on oak with glazed front and side panels, the top with a triangular pediment. Square silvered of regulator type with outer Arabic minute ring and small inner sunk subsidiary hour and seconds dials. Blued steel "lance" hands. Brass rectangular with massive plates, cylindrical pillars secured by screws, barrel with maintaining power, lantern pinions, gravity escapement drawn from the celebrated Denison three-legged. Heavy seconds beating pendulum with spring suspension. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dim. 183 x 48 x 28 cm. Notes Albert H. Potter (1836-1908). Apprentice to Wood & Foley in Albany, from 1852 to 1855, when he established himself in New York, first at 19 John Street and later 84 Nassau Street. In addition to repair work, he made some 35 pocket chronometer movements, part with lever, part with detent escapements, which, once cased in gold were sold from $225 to $350. In 1861 he went to Cuba where he continued the same kind of work for five years, adding to his designs a quarter repeater and a form of duplex escapement. Back to New York, he took his first patent for an escapement in 1868 and soon after moved to the west. He remained in Minneapolis for a while and possibly also in Milwaukee, but by 1870, he was in Chicago. In 1872 he founded the firm Potter Brothers in partnership with his brother William Cle Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-04-20
