102,500 CHF
Northern Goldsmith's Co. , Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty, Newcastle, No. 2050, hallmarked 1918.Very fine and rare 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless one-minute off-center tourbillon regulator pocket chronometer. Massive, four-body, "bassine", solid, stepped bezels, polished, five-piece hinges, gold glazed cuvette. Off-white enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold "spade" hands. Notes An excellent example of the second Sidney Better of Clarkenwell tourbillon carriage. According to R. Meis, only eight are known to exist. The watch is described and illustrated in "Le Tourbillon" by Reinhard Meis, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris 1990, p. 227.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
