111st Auction

2024/11/16

Lot 256

Anders Hoberg
Sully Escapement

An extremely rare, very fine Stockholm pocket watch with Sully escapement

Sold

estimated
1.8003.000 €
Price realized
3.300 €
specific features
Case
Silver, smooth.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Full plate movement, three-arm steel balance.
Case no.24
Diam.59 mm
Circa1790
Ctry.Sweden
Wt.117 g


The watch has only recently been professionally cleaned.


Anders Hoberg (1767-1834) ran a watch factory in Stockholm; around 1805 he was the first maker in Sweden who used the cylinder escapament.some watches by Anders Hoberg are exhibited in the City Museum in Gothenburg.
Source: "Urmakare och Klockor", Gunnar Pipping u.a., Stockholm 1995, p. 300.