208,500 CHF
For J. Pierpont Morgan – Minute Repeating Tourbillon & Split-Seconds Chronograph Charles Frodsham, by Appointment to the Queen, 115 New Bond St., late of 84 Strand, London, No. 08616, Ad. Fmsz. The case with London hallmarks for 1897-98, themovement supplied byNicole Nielsen & Co., entered in stock 1898, ordered by J. Pierpont Morgan and given to P.M.H. in 1913. Exceptional and highly important, large, 18K gold minute-repeating, keyless pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator, split-seconds chronograph and 60-minute register. Four-body, "pommes et filet", massive, by Harrison Mill Frodsham, mastermark HMF, polished, swivel anti-theft pendant, mastermark GJ. Hinged gold cuvette engraved “P.M.H. from J.P.M. 1913”. Notes Provenance: John Pierpont Morgan Schlact Esmond Bradley Martin, New York, purchased from the above in 1956.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
