50,600 CHF
Ferdinand Berthoud a Paris, circa 1770. Very fine and rare weight driven centre seconds journeyman clock. Movement contained in a brass cylinder with hinged bronze bezel. It is secured by three locks on a heavy bracket adjustable on a wall by means of four screws with double knurled buttons. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute and seconds ring. Gilt brass pierced and engraved Louis XVI hands. Circular brass full plate, weight driven, three wheel train, Graham dead-beat escapement visible through an aperture on the back plate, the escape wheel pivoted on the centre of the back plate, second beating plane pendulum, the iron rod divided in three secotins, knife edge suspension. Signed on the dial and back plate. Diam. 145 mm. Presented on a later mahogany board. Notes Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807) Berthoud was a chronometer-maker born at Plancemont, near Neuchatel, Switzerland, on March 19, 1727. From a very early age he showed interest in mechanical matters. His father therefore decided to have him taught cloclanaking and, at the age of 14, Ferdinand was apprenticed to his brother Jean Henri. When he was 19, he went to Paris, where another brother, Jean- ,Jacques, a designer, was already established. It is thought that he worked for Julien Le Roy for some time. Ferdinand, uncle of Loris Berthoud and rival of Pierre Le Roy, established himself in Paris in the Rue de Harley, Ile de la Cite in 1745. In 1752 he presented to the Academy of Science an equ Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-10-31
