View full screen - View 1 of Lot 605. A FINE AND LARGE SILVER POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND HELICAL BALANCE SPRING CIRCA 1844 [ 大型銀製精密計時懷錶備樞軸式天文鐘擒縱系統及螺旋擺輪游絲,年份約1844].

Delépine

A FINE AND LARGE SILVER POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND HELICAL BALANCE SPRING CIRCA 1844 [ 大型銀製精密計時懷錶備樞軸式天文鐘擒縱系統及螺旋擺輪游絲,年份約1844]

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November 12, 04:50 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 CHF

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Delépine


A FINE AND LARGE SILVER POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND HELICAL BALANCE SPRING

CIRCA 1844

[ 大型銀製精密計時懷錶備樞軸式天文鐘擒縱系統及螺旋擺輪游絲,年份約1844]


Movement: gilt-brass half-plate fusee movement, Louis Berthoud-type pivoted detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance, with cylindrical compensation weights and timing nuts, free-sprung blued steel helical spring with terminal curves, ruby endstone, winding square with fusee pipe, cylindrical pillars, signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844

Dial: silvered, Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, signed Fecit Delépine

• Case: silver with engine-turned back, band and bezel, case maker's mark L.S. within a diamond cartouche for Léopold Sécheret,back numbered 832 S, silver cuvette with aperture for winding and signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844


diameter 66mm


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Antiquorum Geneva, 23 October 1999, lot 43
Delépine exhibited at the Exposition des Produits de l'industrie Française in 1844 where he was awarded a silver medal.