103rd Auction
2020/11/7
Lot 136
Fridolin Stübner, Glashütte, Movement No. 1912, 183 x 185 x 183 mm, circa 1900
A Glashuette ship's chronometer with 56h power reserve indicator. This is the only known ship's chronometer by Fridolin Stübner!
Case: mahogany. Dial: silvered. Movm.: brass movement, gilt, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, bimetallic chronometer balance with 2 screws and 4 weights.
Fridolin Stübner born on February 1, 1857; he started his working life at the age of 10 to support his mother and his younger brothers after the death of his father. At the age of 12 he worked for a gemstone setter named Gollmann and at 15 he began a four year apprenticeship with the stone setter G. Kretzschmar. Stübner also worked for the Richter company in Chemnitz (which produced drafting instruments), for tools manufacturers Boley in Esslingen, and, after his military service, for the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik in Geislingen. He then returned to Glashütte and worked for the movement maker Friedrich Weichold, where he specialized in the production of large pocket watches. In 1886 he began working for Dürrstein & Co. and remained there until 1889. By then Stübner already had a reputation as a great watchmaker.
Without doubt Fridolin Stübner was the most important chronometer maker of his time in Glashütte. Reinhard Meis states that "Emil Lange chose well when he employed chronometer maker and engineer Fridolin Stübner, who, among other things, ran a chronometer workshop in Glashütte together with his brother Paul and who had created and regulated a number of instruments". According to Meis, Stübner introduced a kind of "in-house standardization" and devised new industry standard dimensions for marine chronometers that were taken over by the entire German chronometer production industry.
A Glashuette ship's chronometer with 56h power reserve indicator. This is the only known ship's chronometer by Fridolin Stübner!
Case: mahogany. Dial: silvered. Movm.: brass movement, gilt, spring detent escapement according to Thomas Earnshaw, bimetallic chronometer balance with 2 screws and 4 weights.
Fridolin Stübner born on February 1, 1857; he started his working life at the age of 10 to support his mother and his younger brothers after the death of his father. At the age of 12 he worked for a gemstone setter named Gollmann and at 15 he began a four year apprenticeship with the stone setter G. Kretzschmar. Stübner also worked for the Richter company in Chemnitz (which produced drafting instruments), for tools manufacturers Boley in Esslingen, and, after his military service, for the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik in Geislingen. He then returned to Glashütte and worked for the movement maker Friedrich Weichold, where he specialized in the production of large pocket watches. In 1886 he began working for Dürrstein & Co. and remained there until 1889. By then Stübner already had a reputation as a great watchmaker.
Without doubt Fridolin Stübner was the most important chronometer maker of his time in Glashütte. Reinhard Meis states that "Emil Lange chose well when he employed chronometer maker and engineer Fridolin Stübner, who, among other things, ran a chronometer workshop in Glashütte together with his brother Paul and who had created and regulated a number of instruments". According to Meis, Stübner introduced a kind of "in-house standardization" and devised new industry standard dimensions for marine chronometers that were taken over by the entire German chronometer production industry.
Sold
estimated
3.000—6.000 €
Price realized
4.900 €