23,000 CHF
Justice Vulliamy, London, No. "oso", hallmarked 1788-89.Very fine 22K gold, pair-cased dumb half quarter-repeating watch. Outer: two-body, back cover centered by an oval coat of arms with the motto "Honor Praemium Fidelitatis", engine-turned frame, bezels engraved with scrolls. Inner: two-body, polished with an urn engraved on the back, gilt brass dust cap. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic markers. Blued steel "beetle and poker" hands. Notes Matthew Stogden, a workman of Graham, invented a quite different and reliable repeating mechanism in approximately 1730 that was used in most of the best English repeaters. Not only the British used this system, Breguet, in his early years, also did (see lot No. 183 in Antiquorum's catalogue "A Tribute to Precision and Complicated Timepieces", November 11, 2001), though later he used his own system, which was a modification of Stogden's.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
