4,600 CHF
A. H. Rodanet & Cie. à Paris, No. 421, circa 1869. Fine mahogany, 49 hourgoing marine chronometer with power reserve indication. Unusual double body mahogany box with external brass handles and moulded Iid. Brass circular gimbal and bowl. Silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector. GiIt brass "spade" hands. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with cylindrical poising weights and timing screws, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond endstone. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dial diam. 95 mm. Notes A.H. Rodanet, born in 1837 was the son of Julien Hilaire Rodanet (1810-1884), fine maker, working in Rochefort (Charente Maritime-France) where he made more than 200 marine chronometers between 1849 and 1866 with the assistance of 25 wards supplied by department. A.H. Rodanet, trained by his father and in 1866 was his successor. He followed his serial numbers until he Ieft Rochefort to Paris. Three of his chronometers are therefore numbered 243 to 246. He settled in Paris in the rue Vivienne and produced a new series of chronometers from No. 400 to 422. He was the agent of Patek Philippe in Paris. He was 70 when he died in 1907. He published in 1877 with A. Ledieu: Les Montres Marines, Dunod Editions, Paris.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-10-15
