A TRIBUTE TO PRECISION AND COMPLICATE...

Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 290

Justice Vulliamy, London, No. "oso", hallmarked 1788-89.Very fine 22K gold, pair-cased dumb half quarter-repeating watch.

CHF 20,000 - 25,000

USD 12,500 - 15,500

Sold: CHF 23,000

C. Outer: two-body, back cover centered by an oval coat of arms with the motto "Honor Praemium Fidelitatis", engine-turned frame, bezels engraved with scrolls. Inner: two-body, polished with an urn engraved on the back, gilt brass dust cap. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic markers. Blued steel "beetle and poker" hands. M. 39,5 mm, gilt full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement with brass escape wheel, plain steel baance, flat balance spring, single-footed cock, rack and pinion regulator, Stogden repeating system with fixed star, repeating on bronze block fixed to band of the inner case, à tact lever at 5 o'clock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 53 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 03

Notes

Matthew Stogden, a workman of Graham, invented a quite different and reliable repeating mechanism in approximately 1730 that was used in most of the best English repeaters. Not only the British used this system, Breguet, in his early years, also did (see lot No. 183 in Antiquorum's catalogue "A Tribute to Precision and Complicated Timepieces", November 11, 2001), though later he used his own system, which was a modification of Stogden's.