Important Collectors Wristwatches Po...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
LOT 220
John Poole, Maker to the Admiralty, 57 Fenchurch Street, London, No. 2926, circa 1860. Extremely fine eight day going marine or domestic chronometer with power reserve indication and Poole's balance.
CHF 9,000 - 11,000
C. Double body entirely brass bound rosewood box with brass stringing, sunk brass handles and fully glazed lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension. D. Silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down scale. Gold "pear" bands. M. Spotted brass three-quarter plate with with main frame and sub-frame, cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, Poole's auxiliary compensation balance, diamond endstone, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves. Signed on the dial. In excellent condition. Dial diam. 116 mm. Dim. 14 x 20 x 20 cm.
