823,000 HKD
Auguste Huguenin & Fils, Le Locle, No. 14273, circa 1876. Very fine and unique, 18K gold hunting-cased pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon regulator, pivoted detent choronometer escapement and 30-hour power reserve indication. Made as an exhibition piece for the 1876 Philadelphia Universal Centennial Exhibition. Five-body, massive, by J. Broockhimer, the front cover engraved with the United States pavilion of the Centennial Exhibition surmounted by the American flag, borders and band engraved with scrolling foliage, gold, glazed cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down scale. Blued “fleur-de-lys” hands. 49 mm (22’’’), nickel, bridge caliber, spotted decoration, reversed nickel fusee and chain with Harrison’s maintaining power, gold wheel train, 17 jewels, most in gold settings, three-arm polished steel tourbillon carriage with pivoted detent escapement with gold escape wheel, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws and recessed arms to allow greater space for the free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring. Diam. 59 mm. Notes This is a very unusual tourbillon. Exceptionally well finished, it has all the features of a superior timekeeper from the period: superbly finished tourbillon carriage, superior chronometer escapement, free-sprung helical balance spring, reversed fusee to equalize the torque on the escapement without excessive wear on the center wheel bushing (not to be confuse
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
