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Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 502

Large Pocket Chronometer James Nardin, Locle, No. 8732. Made for the American market, circa 1860. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased pocket chronometer with pivoted detent and gold wheel train.

CHF 8,500 - 11,000

USD 8,000 - 10,000 / EUR 5,300 - 7,000

C. Four-body, "bassine", mastermark JN, engine-turned covers, reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette with engineturned border. D. White enamel with narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 44 mm., 20''', maillechort, bridge caliber, jeweled to the center, gold wheel-train, chronometer escapement with pivoted detent, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-23-01

Good

Later

HANDS Original

Notes

James Nardin (James Nardin-Perret) Born in 1814, he was a first cousin of Ulysse Nardin. He worked in the Chaux de Fonds under the name of James Nardin-Perret, Perret being his wife's name. He was granted a U.S. patent (No. 93,735) in 1869 for a self-winding watch and deposited a marine chronometer at the Neuchatel Observatory in 1873 and the company won a Gold Medal for horology at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878. His son, also called James Nardin, continued the business after his father's death in 1885.
Literature: This watch is illustrated and described in: Quelques montres de Jules Jurgensen, Adolphe Chapiro, Bulletin Ancaha, No. 98, Automne- Hiver 2003.