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No. 2137
Early 19th century
Gold watch with slow-running duplex escapement
Case: round on hinge, inside numbered with manufacturer's initials "FLB", fluted caseband, smooth back, gilded metal bowl
Dial: white enamel regulator dial with central second hand, external minute track, off-center hours and minutes, Bréguet-style numerals and hands
Movement: with key winding, three-arm balance wheel, slow-running duplex escapement, advance/delay adjustment racket on the balance bridge
Diameter: 54 mm
Gross weight 118,1 g
UNSIGNED
Early 19th century
Gold dead-beat seconds watch with duplex escapement
The mechanism of this watch recalls the work of the famous watchmaker Jean-Moïse Pouzait (1743-1793), nicknamed "the father of the dead-beat second". In 1776, this watchmaker submitted to the Société des Arts de Genève a memoir based on the principles of a watch using an "independent deadbeat second". Thanks to this pioneering invention at the end of the 18th century, many watchmakers followed the example of Moïse Pouzait's work, such as our example with a slow-running duplex escapement.
No. 2137
Early 19th century
Gold watch with slow-running duplex escapement
Case: round on hinge, inside numbered with manufacturer's initials "FLB", fluted caseband, smooth back, gilded metal bowl
Dial: white enamel regulator dial with central second hand, external minute track, off-center hours and minutes, Bréguet-style numerals and hands
Movement: with key winding, three-arm balance wheel, slow-running duplex escapement, advance/delay adjustment racket on the balance bridge
Diameter: 54 mm
Gross weight 118,1 g
UNSIGNED
Early 19th century
Gold dead-beat seconds watch with duplex escapement
The mechanism of this watch recalls the work of the famous watchmaker Jean-Moïse Pouzait (1743-1793), nicknamed "the father of the dead-beat second". In 1776, this watchmaker submitted to the Société des Arts de Genève a memoir based on the principles of a watch using an "independent deadbeat second". Thanks to this pioneering invention at the end of the 18th century, many watchmakers followed the example of Moïse Pouzait's work, such as our example with a slow-running duplex escapement.