Sold for:
23,000 CHF
23,000 CHF
Not signed, No. 9681, Swiss, circa 1860. Fine 18 ct. gold pocket chronometer with one minute tourbillon regulator. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets", polished. Hinged glazed gold cuvette. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes According to the No. 9681, punched on the front plate beneath the dial, this chronometer appears to have been made with an ebauche coming from the workshop of Jules Jürgensen. It interesting to is compare it with the pocket chronometers No. 9557, illustrated by Reinhard Meis in Le Tourbillon, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990, page 196.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-04-22
