8,050 CHF
Precision Timekeeper with 1 ComplicationE. Delépine à St. Nicolas, près Dieppe, France, No. 1764, made in 1896.Fine 49 hour-going mahogany marine chronometer with power reserve indicator. Brass bowl with weighting ring and threaded glazed bezel gimbaled in three-body mahogany box with glazed panel in the top under hinged lid with fitted catch, flush-fitted brass handles, key-lock in front, gimbal ring locked by two swiveling arms pressing upwards against the base of the cylinder. Silvered with radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector. Gilt brass "pear" hands. Brass, spot finished, full plate with cylindrical pillars secured by srews, inverted fusee with maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with cylindrical weights and timing screws, diamond end-stone, free-sprung palladium helical balance spring.Signed on the dial, back plate and mahogany box.Dial diam. 92 mm.Dim. 16,5 x 16,5 x 17,5 cm. Notes According to the records of Paul Rudolphe, Watchmaker to the French Navy, who overhauled it in 1993, this chronometer was previously overhauled by Leroy in 1930.Emile Delépineestablished in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont, in 1886. He entered the "Trials", the French National Marine concourse and came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th. Leroy filled the other top places. Thirty-three marine chronometers were successfully entered. He exhibited chronometers in Rouen in 1895 and gained a Grand Prix in Par
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
