21,850 CHF
Amaury au Havre (France), produced in the workshop of Louis Berthoud in 1813. Rare and important marine chronometer. Double body mahogany box with slide on the lid over the glazed observation aperture. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension, locking bolt on the edge. Silvered regulator type, with small Roman chapter for hours, subsidiary seconds below, outer Arabic minute ring on the border of the bezel. Blued steel Breguet hands. Brass, spotted finished, full plate, fully jeweled, with steel conical pillars secured by nuts with washers. Fusee with chain, maintaining power, pivoted detent escapement, three-arm compensation balance, with three trapezoidal weights and timing screws, blued steel helical balance spring. Signed on the dial Dial diam. 80 mm. Notes The movement of this chronometer, signed by an unrecorded maker "Amaury at Havre " , carries the No. 134, punched on the reverse of the front plate. In the archives ol Louis Bertlioud ' s workshop, two Horloges Marines No. 134 arc recorded. The first one was sold to the French Navy on 8 November 1813, while the second is only mentioned as having been completed by Monsieur Raymond and fitted with a dial made in Switzerland. Therefore, this chronometer was certainly produced iu the workshop ol Louis Berthoud soon after his death, and retailed by Amaury who had his name engraved on the dial (Refer to La longitude en. veer it 1 'henie de Louis Berthoud at de Henri Motel, Antiquormn Editions, p. 562). An almost identica Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
