French silver repeater, unusual lever escapement Circa 1830
- Kenmerk
- TA1434
- Diameter
- 54 mm
- Estimate
- € 2.750 - 5.500
- Price sold
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Silver open faced by Pere Bouhelier
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A fine and rare french silver, quarter repeating pocket watch with special escapement, circa 1830. Polished, reeded band. Hinged gilt metal cuvette. White enamel dial with upright Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Gold Spade hands.
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A fine and rare french silver, quarter repeating pocket watch with special escapement, circa 1830. Polished, reeded band. Hinged gilt metal cuvette. White enamel dial with upright Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Gold Spade hands.
Frosted gilt movement, ten jewels, standing barrel, gold wheel train, special polished steel lateral lever escapement with an elongated lever arm, the fork engaging a locking pin on the balance pivot, plain three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two massive polished steel hammers on two gongs activated by a pull and- twist button in the pendant, polished steel repeating work under the dial. Cuvette signed.
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Diameter: 54 mm
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Signed: Pere Bouhelier
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Pere Bouhelier a native of Saint Julien, a small village near Charquemont, in Franche Comte, where his surname was very common. Although most farmers, the population made cylinder escapements in wintertime, for both the French and the Swiss makers. It is interesting to note that the few watches known from this maker are all constructed with this very unusual calibre and all set with the same type of straight-line lever escapement. Very few watches made by Pere Bouhelier are known to exist. Two were discussed in Horlogerie Ancienne, bulletin of the A.N.C.1–I. A., Geneva, 20 October 1991. These watches were made with a very special primitive calibre, each of a special design. It was difficult to decide whether he was ahead of his time, technologically speaking, or behind. As Pere Bouhelier was a priest who emigrated to England during the French Revolution, it is most likely that he learned how to make the lever escapements during his enforced exile based on his own trial and error.
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Signed: Pere Bouhelier
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Pere Bouhelier a native of Saint Julien, a small village near Charquemont, in Franche Comte, where his surname was very common. Although most farmers, the population made cylinder escapements in wintertime, for both the French and the Swiss makers. It is interesting to note that the few watches known from this maker are all constructed with this very unusual calibre and all set with the same type of straight-line lever escapement. Very few watches made by Pere Bouhelier are known to exist. Two were discussed in Horlogerie Ancienne, bulletin of the A.N.C.1–I. A., Geneva, 20 October 1991. These watches were made with a very special primitive calibre, each of a special design. It was difficult to decide whether he was ahead of his time, technologically speaking, or behind. As Pere Bouhelier was a priest who emigrated to England during the French Revolution, it is most likely that he learned how to make the lever escapements during his enforced exile based on his own trial and error.
Signed: Pere Bouhelier
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