Austrian silver hunting cased chronometer watch Circa 1893
- Kenmerk
- AD8629
- Diameter
- 57 mm
- Estimate
- € 2.500 - 5.000
- Price sold
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Unusual silver chronometer pocket watch
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An unusual Austrian pocket chronometer/masterpiece in a richly decorated silver case, circa 1893.
Silver/gold, à goutte case with a lavishly engraved fowling scene with monogram AS, a dome with engraving: Specialität in Remontoirs, Chronometer No. 1, gebaut von Carl Sonderwald, Linz a/D., 1893, glazed movement, and gold pendant and crown. Signed enamel dial with subsidiary seconds and blued steel hands. Steel bridge movement with a free-sprung helical balance spring, a pivoted detent escapement, and a gold screw compensation balance.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Weight: 145 g
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Signed: K. Sonderwald, Linz a/D.
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Most likely this watch was the masterpiece of Carl Sonderwald , who was born in 1868 in Neulengbach near Vienna. From 1887 on Sonderwald worked in Linz; he died in Linz in 1947.
Signed: Carl Sonderwald, Linz












