106th Auction
2022/5/21
Lot 177
Aimé Jacob à St. NicolasDepot de la Marine
A collection of 2 French deck chronometers
A rare French deck chronometer with 36h power reserve indicator in a mahogany box
A rare French deck chronometer with 36h power reserve indicator in a mahogany box
Sold
estimated
5.000—8.000 €
Price realized
14.400 €
specific features
Case
Mahogany.
Dial
Silvered.
Movement
Brass movement, 61 mm, chain/fusee, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, bimetallic chronometer balance with 4 screws and 2 weights.
Diam.108 x 70 x 130 mm
Circa1850
Ctry.France
Jean-Aimé Jacob was born in 1793 in Sisteron and started training in Paris in 1813, among others with Pierre Louis Berthoud and Jean François Henri Motel, and eventually in the workshop of Breguet. After 1840 he established his own workshop in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont. Jacob died in 1871 in Dieppe.