25,300 CHF
J. Assmann, Glashütte i/S., No. 15431, circa 1890. Very fine and possibly unique silver and gold, keyless, double-train independent dead-seconds pocket watch. Four-body, “Lucia”, gold hinges, lips and pendant seat, silver hinged cuvette. White enamel, Breguetnumerals, outer minute divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds. Gold “Louis XV” hands. Notes J. Assmann, Glashütte i/S. Founded by Julius Assmann 1827-1886, who studied watchmaking in Stettin, and, after his apprenticeship, moved to Berlin at a time when there was a steady exchange of information between chronometer makers, including Adoph Lange in Glashütte, Saxony. In 1850, Assmann offered his work to Lange, and two years later became an independent watchmaker. The Assmann company produced watches following the Glashütte tradition of movements with 3/4 plate design, often very similar to A. Lange watches. They also finished very high quality Swiss “ebauches”. While production initially consisted of key-wound pocket watches with lateral long lever escapements, later watches featured shorter straight line lever escapements similar to those used in A. Lange watches. As early as 1861, Assmann produced key-wound watches with gold levers. By the 1890s, the company featured men’s and women’s watches and complicated watches with chronograph or split-seconds chronograph, quarter and minute-repeating watches, as well as perpetual calendar watches with combinations of these complications. The finest quality chronometers had gold
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
