J. Fournier, Bd. du Montparnasse No. 57, Paris, No. 1747, circa 1895. Fine mahogany 49 hour going marine chronometer with power reserve indication. C. | Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 15th October 1994

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J. Fournier, Bd. du Montparnasse No. 57, Paris, No. 1747, circa 1895. Fine mahogany 49 hour going marine chronometer with power reserve indication. C.

CHF 8,000 - 10,000

Sold: CHF 8,625

Three body mahogany box with external brass handles, glazed upper section with hinged Iid. Brass circular gimbal and bowl. D. Silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector. GiIt 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 end-stone. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dial diam. 95 mm.

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J. Fournier (1834-1920), Horloger de la Marine, begin his production in 1888 and is awarded the lst. prize at the timing contest organised in 1889-1890, with his chronometer No. 2. He married the daughter of Delépine and became his successor circa 1895, therefore, his own production followed the serial numbers of his father-in-law. This chronometer is certainly among the first produced in his father-inlaw's workshop. A very similar chronometer by E. Delepine is described and illustrated by Hans von Bertele in Marine und Taschenchronometer, Callwey 1981, p. 257.