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Geneva, Nov 13, 2011

LOT 241

A ROYAL GIFT FROM THE QUEEN OF BAVARIA - PIVOTED DETENT CHRONOMETER Ami Sandoz & Fils, No. 5204. Made circa 1850. Extremely fine and rare, large and heavy, 18K gold, huntingcased pocket chronometer with pivoted detent escapement, calendar and dial with painted on enamel portrait of Queen Marie of Bavaria (1825-1889) after Joseph Karl Stieler, the case with the coat of arms of King Maximillian II of Bavaria (1811-1864).

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

USD 11,000 - 16,000 / EUR 8,000 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 40,000

C. Four-body, bassine et fi lets, engine-turned covers, the front with applied varicolored gold high-relief coat of arms of King Maximillian III of Bavaria. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and date dials, fi nely painted on enamel portrait of Queen Marie of Bavaria set at 9. Gold and blued steel fl ower hands. M. 21???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 12 jewels, the detent and escape wheels with screwed gold chatons, large going barrel, gold wheel train, Earnshaw-type pivoted spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum meantime and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel helical balance spring with inner and outer terminal curves, diamond endstone, index regulator. Cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

It is likely that this watch was commissioned and given by Queen Marie to her husband King Maximillian II. Marie was the daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, she married Maximillian in 1842 and was the mother of Kings Ludwig II and Otto of Bavaria. The present watch is a very high quality precision chronometer with pivoted detent chronometer escapement, helical balance spring and gold wheel train. The case and dial are of equally high quality