Lot 706
  • 706

Charles Fasoldt, An openface two-train pocket chronograph chronometer with fifth seconds and wind indicator, Albany, NY, circa 1865

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Description

  • Charles Fasoldt
  • diameter 56mm
damascened nickel movement, 22 jewels in elaborate gold chatons, Fasoldt's two-train chronometer escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, steel Breguet hairspring, Fasoldt's patented micrometer regulator, later glazed cuvette, white enamel dial, roman numerals, two subsidiary dials indicating seconds, one with small fifth seconds dial, third subsidiary dial for 24 hours wind indication, later gold-plated case with glazed display back.

Provenance

Time Museum Inventory No. 991

Literature

Hoke, Donald R. The Time Museum Catalogue of American Pocket Watches. Rockford, 1991, p. 289, cat. no. 314

Catalogue Note

For other pieces by Fasoldt in this sale see lots 705 and 707, and lot 1136 in volume III.