15,340 CHF
“Independent Dead Seconds, Regulator Dial” Aubert & Klaftenberger, Watchmaker to the Queen & H. R.H. Prince Albert, 157 Regent Street, London, No. 5951. The case with London hallmarks for 1854 - 1855. Very fine and rare, slim, 18K gold and enamel, two-train pocket watch with independent dead center seconds, minute register, regulator dial and duplex escapement. Notes This very fine watch, once the property of an English Viscount, is in exceptionally good condition. The independent dead center seconds is unusual in having a minute register dial, being two-train independent center seconds. This watch can be used as a true chronograph. The minute register has to be manually re-set from the back with a key. The maker's inscription on the cuvette is unusual in naming H.R.H Prince Albert as well as The Queen (Victoria).
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
