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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995
LOT 85
Not signed, No. 9681, Swiss, circa 1860. Fine 18 ct. gold pocket chronometer with one minute tourbillon regulator.
CHF 19,000 - 22,000
USD 16,000 - 19,000
Sold: CHF 23,000
C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets", polished. Hinged glazed gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 19"', frosted and gilt, bar calibre with three parallel bridges, going barrel, 13 jewels, pivoted detent escapement with gold escape wheel, cut bimetallic balance, free sprung blued steel balance spring with terminal curve. Very light polished steel tourbillon carriage driven by the minute wheel. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
Notes
According to the No. 9681, punched on the front
plate beneath the dial, this chronometer appears
to have been made with an ebauche coming from
the workshop of Jules Jürgensen. It interesting to
is compare it with the pocket chronometers No.
9557, illustrated by Reinhard Meis in Le
Tourbillon, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1990,
page 196.