21,850 CHF
Perrelet & Fils, Horlogers Mecaniciens du Roi, No. 1012, Paris 1842. Very fine and rare minute recorder with split second minute recorder. Three piece gilt brass cylindrical with screwed bezel and back. Velvet lined Mahogany fitted box. Small eccentric frosted and silvered with Roman numerals and outer minute ring and two subsidiary dials below for the split second chronograph. Blued steel Breguet hands. Frosted and gilt dial plate. Notes Provenance: Collection Leon Leroy, Paris. Only two other split second minute recorder of this type are known to exist, one very similar in the Observatory of Paris, the other, made for the Paris Exhibition in 1827 was certainly the prototype as far the patent is dated 11 March 1828. It was sold in Paris, Hotel Drouot, on 4 June 1982, Augustin Seguin collection, lot No. 31. Copy of the original patent will be supplied to the buyer.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-04-20
