35,400 HKD
"Large Detent Chronometer" Augustin Perret, (Le Locle), retailed by French, Royal Exchange, London, No. 7367. Made for the Hispanic market, circa 1865. Very fine and very rare, large, 18K gold, hunting-cased, pocket chronometer with spring footed-detent chronometer escapement and helical balance spring. Four-body, "pomme et filets", engine-turned covers with polished borders, the interiors with "checkerboard" engine-turned decoration, reeded curved band. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border, hinged glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. Silver with black painted radial Roman numerals within engraved cartouches, subsidary seconds, outer applied yellow gold foliate outer border, the center with applied yellow gold decoration. Yellow gold and rose-cut diamond-set "flower" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
