7,475 CHF
Gaultier Père & Oltramare a la Rochelle (France), circa 1820. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, double-train independent dead-seconds pocket watch with minute and hour registers and virgule escapement. Four-body, “Empire”, polished with reeded band, gilt hinged cuvette White enamel, eccentric Breguet chapter set to the right, outer minute divisions, to the left radial Roman chapter with outer minute divisions for the register, center dead-seconds with divisions on the outermost. Blued steel “spade” hands. 52 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate jeweled to the first, cylindrical pillars, going barrels, virgule escapement, 3-arm brass balance, continental pierced and engraved cock, pin at 5 for start/stop.Dial, cuvette, and movement signed.Diam. 57 mm. Notes It is unusual to find an independent dead-seconds watch with the rarely utilized virgule escapement.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
