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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 3

Johan Wirén, Saint Petersburg, No. 91, movement made by Kullberg, hallmarked 1878-79. Very fine silver and gold deck chronometer with 36-hour winding indicator in original mahogany fitted box.

CHF 9,000 - 11,000

EUR 6,000 - 7,500 / USD 5,200 - 6,500

Sold: CHF 7,475

C. Three-body, polished with gold hinges. Box: three-body, spring-suspended seat with Russian Imperial Eagle applied at the top. D. White enamel, bold radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds, sunk up-and-down indicator at 12 o?clock. M. 49 mm (17 3/4???), frosted gilt full plate, 17 jewels, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, Earnshaw-type spring detent chronometer escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, free-sprung helical balance spring with terminal curves, cock with diamond endstone, jeweled to the third wheel. Signed on dial and movement. Diam. 62 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-21

Good

Period
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Johan Wirén The son of a farmer near Helsinki close to the Russian border, then Swedish territory. He married Emma Engel, a daughter of a clockmaker, with whom he had four children. He supplied the Imperial Navy with chronometers.