40,000 CHF
A ROYAL GIFT FROM THE QUEEN OF BAVARIA - PIVOTED DETENT CHRONOMETER Ami Sandoz & Fils, No. 5204. Made circa 1850. Extremely fine and rare, large and heavy, 18K gold, huntingcased pocket chronometer with pivoted detent escapement, calendar and dial with painted on enamel portrait of Queen Marie of Bavaria (1825-1889) after Joseph Karl Stieler, the case with the coat of arms of King Maximillian II of Bavaria (1811-1864). Four-body, bassine et fi lets, engine-turned covers, the front with applied varicolored gold high-relief coat of arms of King Maximillian III of Bavaria. Hinged gold cuvette with engine-turned border. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds and date dials, fi nely painted on enamel portrait of Queen Marie of Bavaria set at 9. Gold and blued steel fl ower hands. 21’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 12 jewels, the detent and escape wheels with screwed gold chatons, large going barrel, gold wheel train, Earnshaw-type pivoted spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum meantime and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel helical balance spring with inner and outer terminal curves, diamond endstone, index regulator. Cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm. Notes It is likely that this watch was commissioned and given by Queen Marie to her husband King Maximillian II. Marie was the daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, she married Maximillian in
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
