3,625 CHF
Sarton – Watch with Regulator Dial Sarton à Liège, case No. 3520. Made circa 1795. Fine and rare, large silver pocket watch with regulator dial, date and center-seconds. Double-body, "Directoire" with concealed hinge, polished. White enamel, regulator-type, small chapter ring for the meantime with Arabic numerals and outer dot minute divisions, dial for days of the week, outermost seconds divisions with Arabic five-seconds numerals. Fancy gold hands. 55 mm, hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial. Gilt brass dust ring. Movement signed. Diam. 63.5 mm. Notes Hubert Sarton was born in Paris in 1748. Around 1772 he became a pupil of J. Le Roy. Sarton settled in Liège, where he died in 1828 at the age of 80. In 1782, he published a "Description de plusieurs pièces d'horlogerie". He made clocks with carillon, regulator escapements with compensation, clocks with decimal indications, self-winding watches, etc.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-27
