19,375 CHF
Losada - Spring Detent Chronometer for The Spanish Royal Family J. R. Losada, 105 Regent Street, London, No. 4622. Made for a member of the Spanish Royal family, the case with London hallmarks for 1860-1861. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, hunting cased, pocket chronometer with free-sprung footed spring detent escapement. Accompanied by the original Losada fitted box. Four-body, bassine et filets, by Alfred Stram, master mark AS, entirely engraved with a Moresque foliate decoration, the front cover with central engraved initials YF beneath the Bourbon Crown. Hinged gold cuvette with foliate engraving. Silver, foliate engraved with radial Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, inner and outer borders with applied gold cast leaf decoration. Blued steel fleur-de-lys hands. 40 mm., frosted and gilt, half-quarter plate, fusee and chain, jeweled to the third wheel in screwed settings, footed spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone, foliate engraved cock. Movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Notes The present watch has survived in particularly good condition. It was sold to a member of the Spanish Royal family as attested to by the engraved crown of the Bourbon Kings engraved above the initials. J.R. LOSADA born in Iruela, Léon, Losada was attached to the Spanish court, but emigrated to London in 1835 for political reasons. He worked for James Moore before establishing himself first in Euston Road,
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
