96th Auction
2017/11/18
Lot 299
Josef Nicolaus, Vienna, Movement No. 88, 65 mm, 224 g, circa 1900
An impressive deck watch in a silver case with the original mahogany box
Case: silver. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, large gold screw compensation balance.
This watch was part of the Le Roy collection in Paris.
Josef Nicolaus (1855-1923) was a maker and collector in Vienna; he was born in Senftenberg in Bohemia, where he trained before spending some time in Geneva and then working in Vienna after 1885. Nicolaus only made very few timepieces himself, but the collection he put together seems to have been quite extensive; he eventually sold the watches to the watch museum in Vienna around the end of the First World War - for instance for a batch of coal during the hard winter of 1918. Unfortunately most of these hundreds of rare timepieces were lost during the next war.
Watches made by Nicolaus hardly ever come on the market and they are always of supreme quality. The watch museum in Vienna owns some of his pieces, among them a seconds pendulum clock and some pocket chronometers. This heavy deck watch in excellent condition comes with the original keys, and attests to the outstanding skills of this gifted Austrian watch- and chronometer maker. Very often lost in the course of time but available with this watch: the original threepart wooden box.
An impressive deck watch in a silver case with the original mahogany box
Case: silver. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, large gold screw compensation balance.
This watch was part of the Le Roy collection in Paris.
Josef Nicolaus (1855-1923) was a maker and collector in Vienna; he was born in Senftenberg in Bohemia, where he trained before spending some time in Geneva and then working in Vienna after 1885. Nicolaus only made very few timepieces himself, but the collection he put together seems to have been quite extensive; he eventually sold the watches to the watch museum in Vienna around the end of the First World War - for instance for a batch of coal during the hard winter of 1918. Unfortunately most of these hundreds of rare timepieces were lost during the next war.
Watches made by Nicolaus hardly ever come on the market and they are always of supreme quality. The watch museum in Vienna owns some of his pieces, among them a seconds pendulum clock and some pocket chronometers. This heavy deck watch in excellent condition comes with the original keys, and attests to the outstanding skills of this gifted Austrian watch- and chronometer maker. Very often lost in the course of time but available with this watch: the original threepart wooden box.
estimated
11.000—15.000 €
Price realized
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