1,820,000 HKD
FOR J. PIERPONT MORGAN – MINUTE REPEATING TOURBILLON & SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Charles Frodsham, by Appointment to the Queen, 115 New Bond St., late of 84 Strand, London, No. 08616, Ad. Fmsz. The case with London hallmarks for 1897-98, the movement supplied by Nicole Nielsen & Co., entered in stock 1898, ordered by J. Pierpont Morgan and given to P.M.H. in 1913. Exceptional and highly important, large, 18K gold minute-repeating, keyless pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator, split-seconds chronograph and 60-minute register. Four-body, "pommes et fi let", massive, by Harrison Mill Frodsham, mastermark HMF, polished, swivel anti-theft pendant, mastermark GJ. Hinged gold cuvette engraved “P.M.H. from J.P.M. 1913”. Notes John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) John Pierpont Morgan and his family had a long standing relationship with the London watchmaker Charles Frodsham, with orders for watches dating back to the 1850's from J.P. Morgan’s father. Without doubt the most famous watch associated with one of the periods most important men in the United States banking history, is the Charles Frodsham minute repeating pocket watch with split-second chronograph and tourbillon within a 63 mm diameter case. A total of 20 watches with these complications were ordered by J.P. Morgan to be presented to corporate partners and important friends. Of the 20 ordered, 12 are known. This example presented, No. 08616, was the fi rst be ordered with these specifi cations and di
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-10-23
