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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 18, 1997

LOT 355

Amaury au Havre (France), produced in the workshop of Louis Berthoud in 1813. Rare and important marine chronometer.

CHF 14,000 - 16,000

Sold: CHF 21,850

C. Double body mahogany box with slide on the lid over the glazed observation aperture. Brass bowl and gimballed suspension, locking bolt on the edge. D. Silvered regulator type, with small Roman chapter for hours, subsidiary seconds below, outer Arabic minute ring on the border of the bezel. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Brass, spotted finished, full plate, fully jeweled, with steel conical pillars secured by nuts with washers. Fusee with chain, maintaining power, pivoted detent escapement, three-arm compensation balance, with three trapezoidal weights and timing screws, blued steel helical balance spring. Signed on the dial Dial diam. 80 mm.


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Case: 4

Fair
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 4-53

Fair

Reprinted

Notes

The movement of this chronometer, signed by an unrecorded maker "Amaury at Havre " , carries the No. 134, punched on the reverse of the front plate. In the archives ol Louis Bertlioud ' s workshop, two Horloges Marines No. 134 arc recorded. The first one was sold to the French Navy on 8 November 1813, while the second is only mentioned as having been completed by Monsieur Raymond and fitted with a dial made in Switzerland. Therefore, this chronometer was certainly produced iu the workshop ol Louis Berthoud soon after his death, and retailed by Amaury who had his name engraved on the dial (Refer to La longitude en. veer it 1 'henie de Louis Berthoud at de Henri Motel, Antiquormn Editions, p. 562). An almost identical chronometer made by Onesime Dumas under the control ol Charles Auguste Berthoud, is described and illustrated by J.C. Sabrier in La longitude en rarer a l 'lieuo' de Louis Berthoud et (leHenriMotel, Anticluorum Editions, p. 311.