- Page Title
- A rare and important silver pocket chronometer with regulator dial, No. 38, Circa 1809 | Important Watches featuring Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection | Watches | Sotheby's
- Brand
- sothebys.com
- Type
- Other
- First Seen
- 1/1/1970
- Last Seen
- 11/9/2025
- Domain
- sothebys.com
- URL
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/important-watches-2/a-rare-and-important-silver-pocket-chronometer
- Description
- <p><strong>Movement: </strong>the full plate movement, with Louis Berthoud’s pivoted detent escapement, two-arm bi-metallic compensation balance with four wedge shaped temperature adjustment weights, blued steel helical hairspring, the backplate signed <em>No. 38 Construite par Louis Berthoud, the rim with the same signature</em> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Dial: </strong>white enamel signed <em>Louis Berthoud, Hor.ger de la Marine</em> with minutes calibrated on the outer ring and hours below 12’oclock, and constant seconds at 6 o’clock </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Case: </strong>silver, “double fond” <em>stamped with Joly’s maker’s mark and Paris guarantee marks for 1809-1819</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Signed: </strong><em>dial and movement signed Louis Berthoud, case and cuvette stamped JLJ </em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Diameter:</strong> 65 mm</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Accessories: </strong>mahogany<strong> </strong>deck box</p>
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