111st Auction

2024/11/16

Lot 68

Gustav Gerstenberger
Original Glashütter Chronometer No. 120

An important Glashuette table chonometer with half seconds jumping centre seconds and spring detent escapement

estimated
6.0007.500 €
Price realized
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specific features
Case
Glazed, console-shaped mahogany case, screwed-on brass bezel.
Dial
Silvered.
Movement
1/2 plate movement, keywind, large barrel, spring detent escapement, chronometer balance with 2 cylindrical weights and 2 gold screws, freesprung blued balance spring with terminal curve.
Diam.140 x 67 x 150 mm
Circa1935
Ctry.Germany


Gustav Gerstenberger (1886-1983) was born in Breslau in 1886 and also completed his apprenticeship as a watchmaker there. From 1905 he attended the German Watchmaking School in Glashuette and worked for several years with J. Assmann, which gave him the opportunity to refine his skills. He changed to the upcoming Glashuette precision watch company in 1909. Being highly interested in all technical matters, he attended evening lectures by Prof. Strasser. He was with IWC Schaffhausen from 1912 to 1914; after his return to Glashuette he worked for A. Lange & Sons as a freelancer and devoted himself completely to chronometry. Gustav Gerstenberger died in 1983 near Dresden.
Source: "Glashütte und seine Uhren" by Kurt Herkner, Dormagen 1978.