111st Auction
2024/11/16
Lot 256
Anders HobergSully Escapement
An extremely rare, very fine Stockholm pocket watch with Sully escapement
Sold
estimated
1.800—3.000 €
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.