Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 94
Robert Robin aux Galeries du Louvre à Paris, No. 117, circa 1795.
CHF 8,000 - 12,000
Sold: CHF 10,350
Rare and unusual early pocket chronometer, with experimental escapement. C. Three body, engine turned (slightly worn). D. Later silver, engraved with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Gold Breguet hands. Gilt brass dust cap. M. GiIt brass full plate with turned pillars, fusee with chain, early form of pivoted detent escapement, two armed compensation balance with two weights and timing screws, gilt brass engraved balance bridge and ruby end stone, early helical balance spring with adjustable bracket. Signed on the bracket and the dial rim. In good condition. Diam. 58 mm.
Notes
The movement of this watch is typical of Robin early
lever watches made after the Emery watches imported
in France toward 1786. The balance bridge and the
helical balance spring with the adjustable bracket is very
similar to that made by Josiah Emery. The early pivoted
detent escapement of this watch seems to have been
set by Robin on an earlier movement made with a lever
escapement.