Swiss gold chronometer with one minute Tourbillon Circa 1870
- Kenmerk
- AD8681
- Diameter
- 52 mm
- Estimate
- € 40.000 - 65.000
- Price sold
- €
Remarkable chronometer by Ernest Guinand
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A remarkable hunting cased pocket chronometer with one-minute tourbillon and lavish gold watch chain, circa 1870.
An 18 Carat gold case, engine-turned, with case maker’s punch mark HAR and glazed movement. A silver dial, engine-turned, applied, floral gold decoration, with radial Roman hours, auxiliary seconds, and blued spade hands. And a bridge movement, German silver, stripe decorated, with anti galop system, very fine polished tourbillon steel cage, a second type of Guinand’s steel carriage, filigree mirror-polished steel cock, pink gold train, wolf teeth winding wheels, pivoted detent chronometer escapement, and gold screw compensation balance.
Diameter: 52 mm
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Weight: 145 g
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Signed: Ernest Guinand La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Ernest Guinand of Le Locle was a gifted tourbillon maker like his peer Auguste Grether (1817-1879) of Ponts-de-Martel. Both men worked for a number of firms in Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds. Guinand probably produced his first tourbillon around 1865, his very first one, No. 1060, was later sold to Girard-Perregaux and he is said to have sold as many as 25 tourbillons to this company. He died in 1879.
Signed: Ernest Guinand La Chaux-de-Fonds
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