111st Auction
2024/11/16
Lot 78
Jacob à St. NicolasDepot de la Marine
A French deck chronometer with 36h power reserve indicator
Sold
estimated
1.500—3.000 €
Price realized
3.600 €
specific features
Case
Brass bowl, three part mahogany box.
Dial
Silvered.
Movement
Full plate movement, chain/fusee, spring detent escapement, bimetallic chronometer balance with 2 weights and 2 screws, freesprung blued helical balance spring.
Case no.295
Diam.102x70x120 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.