Lot 53

Gustav Gerstenberger

An interesting Glashuette table chronometer with spring detent escapement

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An excellently preserved example of the legendary Gerstenberger table chronometers, about which Fritz von Osterhausen wrote in Klassik Uhren: "This form of table chronometer is extraordinarily rare. The only older table chronometer of this type, which can be presented here, dates from this century and was made by the great Glashütte regleur and chronometer maker Gustav Gerstenberger (1886 to 1983), since 1920 chief regleur at A. Lange & Söhne, who produced a self-developed, very fine table chronometer in small series since the mid-1920s and sold it under his own name. [...] In the design of the aesthetically very successful, symmetrically constructed and finely gilded movement caliber, Breguet's movement type of the four-minute tourbillon certainly served as a model, because it has the same crescent-shaped curved half plate, from whose central axis the balance cock emerges straight and wide. [...] This table chronometer by Gerstenberger was the only truly independent development in the field of this type of clock outside of England and therefore deserves special attention." (Klassik Uhren 6/1992, p. 16)