4,025 CHF
Charles Frodsham, By Appointment to The Queen, 84, Strand, London, No. 08416. Case by Harrison Mill Frodsham with London hallmarks for 1894. Very fine, large, 18K gold pocket watch with free-sprung balance. Four-body, “forme collier”, polished, stepped bezel, flat band. Hinged gold cuvette. Off-white enamel by Willis (signed on the reverse), radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “spade” hands. 47 mm., frosted gilt, half-plate, 15 jewels in screwed chatons, lateral lever escapement, free-sprung cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with double overcoil, diamond endstone. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm. Notes The significance of “AD.FMSZ”, is said to be found by putting the name of Frodsham against numbers thus: F R O D S H A M Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 Hence FMSZ gives the date 1850. During the late 19th and early 20th century the firm was closely connected with Nicole Nielsen who made most of the movements, including some of the most perfect tourbillons ever made, and which still perform with almost unrivalled accuracy. At some time before the mid-20th century, the company began making lever escapement and chronometer escapement watches of the very highest quality and continued to do so until the outbreak of war in 1939. Frodsham watches are almost always elegant and well proportioned. Even as late as 1914, some of them, with engine-turned silver dials, were worthy of Breguet. The firm was appointe
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
