56,640 CHF
“Skeletonized Dead Center Seconds with Pouzait-Type Seconds Beating Pirouette Lever Escapement” Swiss. Made circa 1820. Very fine and extremely unusual, silver and gold pocket watch with dead center seconds, seconds-beating balance, variation of Pouzait’s lever escapement, skeletonized regulator dial and date. Three-body, “bassine et filet”, glazed both sides, polished gold bezels, pendant and bow, silver engine-turned band. Skeletonized, regulator type with silvered annular chapter rings for the hours and minutes with radial Roman numerals, date from 1-31, outer seconds with dot divisions and Arabic quarter minute numerals. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 48 mm., 21’’’, frosted gilt full plate, turned concave pillars, fusee with chain, polished steel lever escapement mounted in the center of the dial plate, counterpoised lever with opposing rack acting on a pinion with a pirouette wheel meshing with the balance wheel pinion, seconds-beating three-arm polished steel balance, the flat balance spring on the pirouette wheel, escapement partially jewelled, engraved gilt bridge, index regulator. Diam. 56 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman Notes The present watch has an interesting variation of the Pouzait escapement with a seconds-beating balance to allow dead center seconds, but unlike the Pouzait escapement, the balance is small and without a balance spring. A pirhouette wheel with a balance spring meshes with the balance pinion, this wheel is driven by a toothed rack at on
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
