97th Auction

2018/5/12

Lot 425

Daniel Ekegrén, Kiobenhavn, Case No. 1, 58 mm, 166 g, circa 1821
A heavy pocket watch with quarter repeater and cylinder escapement - numbered no. 1 ! - most probably the master piece of Daniel Ekegrén, father of Henri Robert Ekegrén
Case: 18k pink gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, 2 hammers, 2 gongs, cylinder escapement in the style of Urban Juergensen, three-arm brass balance.
Daniel Ekegrén (born 1795 in Karlskrona) probably became a master in 1821. He was a pupil of Urban Juergensen. His son Henri Robert Ekegrén (1823-1896), the famous Danish maker of watches and chronometers at the Royal Court worked for Urban Juergensen, Henry Golay, Joseph-Thaddeus Winnerl and Adolph Lange before eventually opening his own workshop in Geneva. Ekegrén won several gold medals at different Great Exhibitions and was also a repeated winner of the chronometer trials in Geneva.

Sold

estimated
2.5004.000 €
Price realized
3.400 €