Sold for:
16,100 CHF
16,100 CHF
Precision Timepiece with 1 ComplicationJoseph White and Son, Makers to the Admiralty, No. 38650, Coventry & London, hallmarked 1909.Very fine and interesting large, silver and gold, keyless, six- minute karrusel pocket chronometer. Four-body, "bassine", with grooved bezels, polished, gold hinge, lips and pin-set seat, silver hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary sunk seconds, signed by Willis. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes Six-minute karrusels are very rare. In fact, the speed of rotation is closer to that of tourbillions than of karrusels.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
