Swiss 18 carat gold chronometer with tourbillon Circa 1865
- Kenmerk
- SB0068
- Diameter
- 55 mm
- Estimate
- € 30.000 - 60.000
- Price sold
- € 36.350
Fine, rare, gold chronometer by Ulysse Breting
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A fine and rare Swiss gold keyless chronometer pocket watch with pellaton style one minute Ernest Guinand type 2 tourbillon, circa 1865. Nickel movement, Pellaton style tourbillon, Guinand type 2 carriage (Meis classification) with pivoted detent chronometer escapement, gold wheel train and escape wheel, Breguet blued steel balance spring with perpendicular stud for preventing excessive amplitudes and double overcoil, entire train jewelled. Glazed cuvette. White enamel dial, subsidiary seconds with fine gold arrow hand and diamond set gold hand. 18 Carat engine turned case, hand setting slide to the band, name inscribed inside the case. Dial and movement signed by retailer Victor Siegfried A Strasbourg.
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A fine and rare Swiss gold keyless chronometer pocket watch with pellaton style one minute Ernest Guinand type 2 tourbillon, circa 1865. Nickel movement, Pellaton style tourbillon, Guinand type 2 carriage (Meis classification) with pivoted detent chronometer escapement, gold wheel train and escape wheel, Breguet blued steel balance spring with perpendicular stud for preventing excessive amplitudes and double overcoil, entire train jewelled. Glazed cuvette. White enamel dial, subsidiary seconds with fine gold arrow hand and diamond set gold hand. 18 Carat engine turned case, hand setting slide to the band, name inscribed inside the case. Dial and movement signed by retailer Victor Siegfried A Strasbourg.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: Victor Siegfried A Strasbourg
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While Geneva is regarded as the centre for beautiful and precious watches, the region between Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds is the centre for precision and complicated watchmaking.
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Signed: Victor Siegfried A Strasbourg
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While Geneva is regarded as the centre for beautiful and precious watches, the region between Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds is the centre for precision and complicated watchmaking.
One of the most outstanding watchmakers of the valley is Ernest Guinand. Born in 1810 and working in Le Locle, he was a distinguished specialist for tourbillon movements. Since 1865, he made between 20 and 25 tourbillons for Girard-Perregaux and other manufacturers, each of them a unique and outstanding piece. The characteristic ‘A-shape’ of the tourbillon cage was his own design. During his lifetime he created three very iconic shapes. Although they do not differ in function from other tourbillons, they do differ in size and it is the size that makes them so hard to make. No one had made such a small tourbillon cage before and it would take another 40 years for the improved version to be created. In 1864 even Patek Philippe chose Guinand to build their first tourbillon regulator. For more information about Ernest Guinand and his tourbillons see: Peter CDE and Thomas Prescher, Three Bridges in the Valley of Dreams, june 2003.
Signed: Victor Siegfried A Strasbourg
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