Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...
Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005
?Sugar-Tong Pocket Chronometer? Thomas Mc Cabe, Royal Exchange, London, No. 6183, movement by Thomas Earnshaw. Case by James Richards with London Hallmarks for 1807-8. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold pocket chronometer with Earnshaw?s spring detent escapement and patent bimetallic ?sugar-tong? compensation.
C. Three-body, ?bassine?, polished. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals and outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds. Gold ?Breguet? hands. M. 42 mm., gilt brass full plate with ring-turned pillars, fusee and chain, Harrison?s maintaining power, Earnshaw?s spring detent escapement, escape wheel with endstones in screwed chaton, large polished steel flat-rim three-arm balance with diamond endstone, flat blued steel balance spring, chased and engraved single footed balance cock, Earnshaw?s bimetallic ?sugar-tong? compensation coupled with the index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 55.5 mm.
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Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-20-01 |
Good Period original HANDS Original |