17,250 CHF
Winnerl, Paris, No. 261, circa 1830. Very fine gilt brass deck watch in original mahogany fitted box. Tambour, gilt and lacquer brass, bayonette fixing. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes Joseph-Tadeus Winnerl. He was born at Murech (Austrian Styria) on 25 January 1799. He left his country when very young to visit the principal cities of Europe in which clockmaking was practiced. Thus he worked for Kessels in Altona, and Jürgensen in Copenhagen. He arrived in Paris in 1829, where he was employed by the best clockmakers, in particular Breguet. He chose France as his country of adoption and was naturalized.Towards 1832 he set up shop in the passage de Lorette in Paris, and established a workshop there for making marine chronometers.At the Exhibition of the Products of French Industry in 1839, the Central Jury awarded him a gold medal. In 1843 he presented to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and Sciences an anchor escapement modified for clocks, which was the subject of a report by Baron Seguier. That same year he presented to the Society a split seconds recorder of his invention.At the 1844 Exhibition, the Central Jury awarded him an addition to the gold medal that he had already obtained in 1839, and he was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. At the Universal Exhibition of 1855, the Jury awarded him a grand Prize, and he was raised to the rank of Officer of the Légion d
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-16
