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LOT 120

Precision Timekeeper with 1 ComplicationE. Delépine à St. Nicolas, près Dieppe, France, No. 1764, made in 1896.Fine 49 hour-going mahogany marine chronometer with power reserve indicator.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

USD 3,700 - 5,000

Sold: CHF 8,050

C. Brass bowl with weighting ring and threaded glazed bezel gimbaled in three-body mahogany box with glazed panel in the top under hinged lid with fitted catch, flush-fitted brass handles, key-lock in front, gimbal ring locked by two swiveling arms pressing upwards against the base of the cylinder. D. Silvered with radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector. Gilt brass "pear" hands. M. Brass, spot finished, full plate with cylindrical pillars secured by srews, inverted fusee with maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance with cylindrical weights and timing screws, diamond end-stone, free-sprung palladium helical balance spring.Signed on the dial, back plate and mahogany box.Dial diam. 92 mm.Dim. 16,5 x 16,5 x 17,5 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4 - 5 - 01

Notes

According to the records of Paul Rudolphe, Watchmaker to the French Navy, who overhauled it in 1993, this chronometer was previously overhauled by Leroy in 1930.Emile Delépineestablished in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont, in 1886. He entered the "Trials", the French National Marine concourse and came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th. Leroy filled the other top places. Thirty-three marine chronometers were successfully entered. He exhibited chronometers in Rouen in 1895 and gained a Grand Prix in Paris, 1910, using steel and platinum balance springs.