256,500 CHF
Continental Flying Tourbillon Woldemar Fleck, Glashütte, made in Deutsche Uhrmacher Schule, Glashütte, No. 24 made in 1931. Exceptionally fine and equally rare thin silver, keyless double-barrel one-minute flying tourbillon chronometer masterpiece with 36-hour power reserve indicator. Four-body, "Lucia à gouge", polished, silver glazed cuvette, most likely made by Karl Richter. Silvered, matte and whitened, applied blued steel baton indexes pinned from underside, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "feuille" hands. 45 mm (20’’’), half-plate, maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, jeweled to the center, two-barrel, Helwig "flying" tourbillon carriage with three-arm very light cage with spring detent escapement, anibal-steel Guillaume compensation balance with gold temperature and mean time screws, free-sprung special steel alloy balance spring with Phillips outer terminal curve, S. Stanley type differential up-and-down indicator.Signed on the movement, pillar plate punched with the Uhrmacher Schule mark. Diam. 59 mm, thickness with the glass 16 mm. Notes Continental Flying Tourbillon As opposed to regular tourbillon regulators in which the carriage is fitted in a plate and secured by a bridge, in flying tourbillons, as invented by Alfred Helwig, the lower bearing of the carriage is fitted in the plate in the regular way, the upper bearing is fitted beneath the carriage, and the carriage is built around free (flying) arbor. On the top of the
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
