66,700 CHF
Ernest Guinand, Locle, No. 3321, circa 1870, made for the Indian market. Very fine and important, 18K gold, slim dress watch with one-minute tourbillon regulator with unusual layout and straight-line lever escapement in a leather-covered fitted box, accompanied by crank lever key. Five-body, by “WR”, "Bassine et filets", engine-turned and florally engraved, gold hinged cuvette. Silvered, engine-turned, with applied varicolored gold foliage decoration and radial Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gilt “Louis XV” hands. Notes The present watch appears to be one of only two of this caliber. The other one was sold by Antiquorum at “The Longitude at the Eve of the Third Millennium” sale, October 23, 1999, lot 55. Ernest Guinand, the most eminent of Swiss tourbillon makers of the period, rarely signed his watches. They were sold to établisseurs who signed them and in turn sold them to their clients. The present watch, is one of only two known signed Guinand tourbillons the other was sold by Antiquorum in 1999. The “signature” takes the form of the shape of the bridge, which forms the letter G. The present watch is also rare because it features a straight line lever escapement. Guinand generally used a lateral lever escapement, if he used a lever escapement at all. Ernest Guinand c. 1810 – 1879 Was an important Master Horologist from Le Locle, who, along with Auguste Grether from Ponts-de-Martel 1817-1879, specialized in the production of tourbillon carriages. Guinand mu
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
