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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 356

J. Fournier, Bd. du Montparnasse, No. 57, Paris, No. 1711, circa 1895. Fine mahogany 49-hour going marine chronometer with power reserve indication. Accompanied by the original ratchet key.

CHF 8,000 - 9,000

C. Three body mahogany deck watch type box. D. Silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector. Gilt brass "spade " hands. M. Brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with poising weights and timing screws, free sprung polished steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone. Signed on the dial. Dial diam. 95 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 4-51

Fair

Partially reprinted

Notes

J. Fournier (18341920), Horloger de la Marine, began his production in 1888 and was awarded the 1st prize at the timing contest organised in 1889-1890, with his chronometer No. 2. He married the daughter of Delepine and became his successor around 1895. His own production therefore followed the serial numbers of his father-in-law's. This chronometer is certainly among the first produced in his father-in-law's workshop.