9,200 CHF
Rolex, No. 8273, made by Thomas Mercer, St. Alban, circa 1915. Extremely fine eight day going marine or domestic chronometer with power reserve indication. Double body mahogany box with fully glazed lid. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension. Silvered with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-anddown scale. Blued steel "pear" hands. Spotted brass three-quarter plate with with main frame and sub-frame, cylindrical pillars, fusee with chair and maintaining power, Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, Mercer compensation balance, diamond endstone, free sprung paladium helical balance spring with terminal curves. SignedRolex on the dial. In excellent condition. Dial diam. 128 mm. Dim. 21 x 21 x 21 cm. Notes ROLEX From 1908 Hans Wilsdorf, (Bavaria 1881 - Geneva 1960), settled in 1900 in La Chaux de Fonds, Swiss Canton of Neuchatel, working at Cuno Kourten, a manufacture of watches of all kinds and all qualifies. In direct contact with the Swiss and foreign watch world he gained a wide commercial and technical knowledge of the trade. In 1903 he moved to London and in 1905 started his own business with his sister and brother-in-law, establishing the firm " Wilsdorf and Davis", manufacture of watch cases and distribution company of wristwatches. By 1908 the company produced watches with English cases by those makers who had for generations furnished the best watch-makers in England. On 2nd July 1908, Hans Wilsdorf introduced the trade-mark "Rolex" which was registere Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-10-21
