29,900 CHF
Charles Frodsham, by Appointment to the Queen, 115 New Bond St. , late of 84 Strand, London, No. 08172, Ad. Fmsz, movement supplied by Nicole Nielsen & Co, partially Swiss. Fine 18K gold large keyless minute-repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and 60-minute register. Four-body, "pommes", heavy, polished, hinged gold glazed cuvette, swivel antitheft pendant by "AS". Off-white enamel, by master dialmaker Willis, radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary sunk minute register at 9, subsidiary sunk seconds at 3. Blued steel "spade" hands. 46 mm (19’’’), nickel-finished, 3/4-plate, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 20 jewels, most in screwed chatons, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and mean-time screws, double-overcoiled balance spring with inner and outer Phillips curves, Nicole Nielsen chronograph mechanism, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial and movement,Diam. 64 mm. Notes Nicole Nielsen & Co. Perhaps the leading manufacturers of complicated watches in late 19th century London, the Nicole Nielsen firm made watches and carriage clocks for leading makers such as Frodsham, but also marketed under their own name. The firm originated in 1840 when Adolphe Nicole, a partner in the firm of Nicole & Capt, Geneva, decided to settle in London where he ran a branch of the firm at 80b Dean Street. In 1844 Nicole registered a patent, no. 10348,
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
