295,000 HKD
“One Minute Tourbillon” Attributable to Nicole, Nielsen & Co. , No. 59790. The case with London hallmarks for 1904– 1905. Very fine and exceptionally rare, 18K gold keyless detent pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator and Guillaume balance. Four-body, “pomme et filet”, by Philip Woodman (Mastermark PW), polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Off-white enamel by Willis, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “Spade” hands. 20’’’, three-quarter plate, gilt brass, ringed cylindrical pillars, jeweled to the center, going barrel, Nicole Nielsen winding and hand setting, one-minute equidistant 3-arm steel tourbillon carriage, Earnshaw type spring footed detent escapement, anibal-brass Guillaume balance with gold temperature and mean-time adjustment screws, blued steel double-overcoiled free-sprung Breguet balance spring, diamond endstone, lateral gold bridge on two polished steel ringed pillars. Case and movement numbered. Diam. 54 mm. Notes Nicole, Nielsen & Co. Perhaps the leading manufacturers of complicated watches in late 19th century London, Nicole Nielsen & Co. made watches and carriage clocks for leading makers such as Frodsham, but also marketed under their own name. The firm originated in 1840 when Adolphe Nicole, a partner in the firm of Nicole & Capt, Geneva, settled in London. From 1858 the firm was at 14 Soho Square, where it remained for the next 75 years. In 1862 Nicole patented his chronograph stop system incorpora
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
