Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 473
John Arnold & Son, Invenit et fecit, London, No. 483/784, bearing the London Hallmarks for 1794. Very fine silver gilt, pocket chronometer.
CHF 20,000 - 25,000
Sold: CHF 34,500
C.Three body, consular, polished, with fixed cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds (hair lines). Blued steel spade hands. M. GiIt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, typical Arnold spring detent escapement with the detent sunk in the back plate, Arnold "Z" platinum and silver balance, free sprung gold helical balance spring with terminal curves, gilt brass cock, pierced and engraved with scrolls and a dragon's head, diamond endstone. Signed on the back plate. In good condition. Diam. 55 mm.
