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VIEL ROBIN, PARIS
HORLOGER DU JARDIN DU ROI
Early 19th century
Large gold pocket watch with independent deadbeat seconds hand
Case: round on hinge, gold bowl signed and numbered "Viel Robin No. 469 Hger du Jin du Roi Paris" with three openings for the square winding of the hours and minutes, mainspring and independent deadbeat seconds, the case entirely guilloché
Dial: white enamel with Breguet-style Arabic numerals and hands, center deadbeat second with safety catch on case middle, circular-grained minute track and small second hand
Movement: mechanical with key winding, double barrel, one for the mainspring and the other for the independent deadbeat seconds, three-arm spiral balance with lateral anchor escapement, advance/retard adjustment racket, signed on the bridge "Viel-Robin".
Diam. 61 mm
Gross weight 130,1 g
VIEIL ROBIN, Paris
Early 19th century
Oversized gold pocket watch with dead independent seconds
Viel Robin was a watchmaker based in Paris, rue des Fossés in Montmartre, around 1830. His name is mentioned in the Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, p. 641, Tardy.
HORLOGER DU JARDIN DU ROI
Early 19th century
Large gold pocket watch with independent deadbeat seconds hand
Case: round on hinge, gold bowl signed and numbered "Viel Robin No. 469 Hger du Jin du Roi Paris" with three openings for the square winding of the hours and minutes, mainspring and independent deadbeat seconds, the case entirely guilloché
Dial: white enamel with Breguet-style Arabic numerals and hands, center deadbeat second with safety catch on case middle, circular-grained minute track and small second hand
Movement: mechanical with key winding, double barrel, one for the mainspring and the other for the independent deadbeat seconds, three-arm spiral balance with lateral anchor escapement, advance/retard adjustment racket, signed on the bridge "Viel-Robin".
Diam. 61 mm
Gross weight 130,1 g
VIEIL ROBIN, Paris
Early 19th century
Oversized gold pocket watch with dead independent seconds
Viel Robin was a watchmaker based in Paris, rue des Fossés in Montmartre, around 1830. His name is mentioned in the Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, p. 641, Tardy.