193,250 CHF
“Triple-Axis Toubillon” Richard Good and Son, Seaford, England, No. 1, “Invenit et Fecit 1979”. Highly important and spectacular massive gilt brass carriage clock with triple-axis tourbillon carriage and constant force escapement. In wooden traveling case. Glazed on all sides and top, heavy gilt brass molded base with four square feet, four columns with zigzag pattern, molded top with hinged handle. Silvered disc with champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at the top. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rectangular, 170 x 80 mm, heavy gilt brass, six faceted pillars, large going barrel, six-wheel train driving the triple axis tourbillon carriage built on the principle of spherical differential with straight line constant force lever escapement,cut-bimetallic compensation balance with flat balance spring, Incablock anti-shock device, the outside beveled gear with adjustment screws. Signed on the dial.Dim. 21.5 cm high (including handle), base 13.3 cm. Notes Collection, Richard Good’s possession until his death. Sold by the family afterwards. Literatur@Edescribed and illustrated in “The Horological Journal”, April 1983, pp. 15-19, mentioned in numerous other publications. One does not need to be a connoisseur of horology to admire the intricacy of this three-axis tourbillion whose carriage rotates like a complicated astronomical model, which in fact it is. When we first saw it, we let it run for a good ten minutes, just to stare at it, and marv
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
