99,750 CHF
NICOLE NIELSEN & CO. TOURBILLON GRANDE ET PETITE SONNERIE PERPETUAL CALENDAR & 7 DAY GOING TRAVEL CLOCK SILVER Nicole Nielsen & Co., London, No. 12080/10902. Made circa 1910. Very rare and fine grande and petite sonnerie, striking "hump-back" tourbillon carriage clock with perpetual calendar and 7 day power reserve, in original fitted traveling case with original silver ratchet key. Two-body, polished, sides engraved with family crest (In Te Domine Speravi) and initials JTP (John Theodore Prestige), glass hinged back, under base signed (John Theodore Prestige's watch chain 1827-1892), gold chain handle. Enamel, arabic numerals, outer numerals for date indication, subsidiary seconds below 12 o'clock, subsidiary dials for days of the week and month, engine-turned dial plate below with 7 day power reserve indication and strike/silent/quarters. Blued steel spade hands. Hump-back, 108 x 78 brass plates with turned pillars, reversed fusee with chain and maintaining power, vertically mounted three arm tourbillon mounted on a bridge, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring with terminal curve. Notes Signed on movement. DIM. 117 x 85 x 51 mm. Perhaps the leading manufacturers of complicated watches in the 19th century London, Nicole Nielsen made watches and carriage clocks both for leading makers such as Frodsham but also marketed under their own name. The firm originated in 1840 when Adolphe Nicole, a partner in the firm of Nicole & Capt, Geneva, dec Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-05-15
