7,475 CHF
Johan Wirén, Saint Petersburg, No. 91, movement made by Kullberg, hallmarked 1878-79. Very fine silver and gold deck chronometer with 36-hour winding indicator in original mahogany fitted box. Three-body, polished with gold hinges. Box: three-body, spring-suspended seat with Russian Imperial Eagle applied at the top. White enamel, bold radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds, sunk up-and-down indicator at 12 o’clock. 49 mm (17 3/4’’’), frosted gilt full plate, 17 jewels, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, Earnshaw-type spring detent chronometer escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, free-sprung helical balance spring with terminal curves, cock with diamond endstone, jeweled to the third wheel. Signed on dial and movement. Diam. 62 mm. Notes Johan Wirén The son of a farmer near Helsinki close to the Russian border, then Swedish territory. He married Emma Engel, a daughter of a clockmaker, with whom he had four children. He supplied the Imperial Navy with chronometers.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-04-13
