Swiss minute repeating perpetual calendar watch Circa 1880
- Kenmerk
- SA1009
- Diameter
- 56 mm
- Estimate
- € 15.000 - 30.000
- Price sold
- € 5.800
Minute repeating perpetual calendar watch with moon phases
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A rare Swiss minute repeating perpetual calendar watch with moon phases in a later 18k yellow gold glazed case circa 1880, bimetallic compensation balance, glazed cuvette.
White enamel dial with hairlines, four subsidiary dials indicating day, date, month combined with leap year indication and constant seconds combined with phases and ages of the moon.
Later polished case, repeat slide in the band, hinged back,case, dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Albert H. Potter and Co. Geneva
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Albert H. Potter was born in Saratoga County, New York in 1830 and served his apprenticeship in Albany. In 1855, he established himself in New York City. He spent five years working in Cuba and later returned to the United States and organized a watch company with his brother William Cleveland Potter.In 1876, he moved to Geneva where he produced approximately 600 watches. His complicated watches sold for prices beginning at $250.Potter remains the most celebrated American maker of pocket chronometers. The present example incorporates many features unique to Potter’s production, including his patented safety barrel, his own form of pivoted detent, the arrangement of the passing spring and his method of securing the movement in the case.During his career Albert H. Potter created such a small number of watches that a perpetual calendar example, such as the present, is especially unusual and rare.Dial with hairlines
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A rare Swiss minute repeating perpetual calendar watch with moon phases in a later 18k yellow gold glazed case circa 1880, bimetallic compensation balance, glazed cuvette.
White enamel dial with hairlines, four subsidiary dials indicating day, date, month combined with leap year indication and constant seconds combined with phases and ages of the moon.
Later polished case, repeat slide in the band, hinged back,case, dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 56 mm
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Signed: Albert H. Potter and Co. Geneva
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Albert H. Potter was born in Saratoga County, New York in 1830 and served his apprenticeship in Albany. In 1855, he established himself in New York City. He spent five years working in Cuba and later returned to the United States and organized a watch company with his brother William Cleveland Potter.In 1876, he moved to Geneva where he produced approximately 600 watches. His complicated watches sold for prices beginning at $250.Potter remains the most celebrated American maker of pocket chronometers. The present example incorporates many features unique to Potter’s production, including his patented safety barrel, his own form of pivoted detent, the arrangement of the passing spring and his method of securing the movement in the case.During his career Albert H. Potter created such a small number of watches that a perpetual calendar example, such as the present, is especially unusual and rare.Dial with hairlines
Signed: Albert H. Potter and Co. Geneva
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