95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 92
Friedrich Gutkaes, Dresden, Case No. 1153, 140 mm, circa 1853
An historically important quarter repeating carriage clock with quarter hour/hour self strike "Grande Sonnerie" and alarm - with spring detent escapement and tourbillon in an original signed and numbered gold-tooled leather travelling box
Case: brass, gilt, facet glazed on all sides. Dial: enamel. Movm.: rectangular-shaped brass movement, 3 hammers / 2 bells, 3 barrels, screw compensation balance.
Among the already rare travel clocks created by Friedrich Gutkaes, clockmaker to the court in Dresden, this model with spring detent chronometer escapement and tourbillon is of particular rarity. The entire escapement mechanism with base plate, balance and wheel cock is intricately engraved - even the tourbillon counterweight is similarly decorated. The original numbered and signed transport case with glass panel is still available, the key is presumably original as well. This watch took part in the great industrial exhibition of 1854 at the Hotel de Pologne in Dresden and was thought to be lost until now.
Friedrich Gutkaes, who died in 1845, was not known to ever have produced a tourbillon. So we cannot be certain whether the watch exhibited in 1845 with the designation 'Fr. Gutkäs' was created by the son Gustav Bernhard Gutkaes or (maybe in parts) really by the father Friedrich Gutkaes.
Source: Jürgen Ermert 'Präzisionspendeluhren', Vol. 4, Overath 2017
An historically important quarter repeating carriage clock with quarter hour/hour self strike "Grande Sonnerie" and alarm - with spring detent escapement and tourbillon in an original signed and numbered gold-tooled leather travelling box
Case: brass, gilt, facet glazed on all sides. Dial: enamel. Movm.: rectangular-shaped brass movement, 3 hammers / 2 bells, 3 barrels, screw compensation balance.
Among the already rare travel clocks created by Friedrich Gutkaes, clockmaker to the court in Dresden, this model with spring detent chronometer escapement and tourbillon is of particular rarity. The entire escapement mechanism with base plate, balance and wheel cock is intricately engraved - even the tourbillon counterweight is similarly decorated. The original numbered and signed transport case with glass panel is still available, the key is presumably original as well. This watch took part in the great industrial exhibition of 1854 at the Hotel de Pologne in Dresden and was thought to be lost until now.
Friedrich Gutkaes, who died in 1845, was not known to ever have produced a tourbillon. So we cannot be certain whether the watch exhibited in 1845 with the designation 'Fr. Gutkäs' was created by the son Gustav Bernhard Gutkaes or (maybe in parts) really by the father Friedrich Gutkaes.
Source: Jürgen Ermert 'Präzisionspendeluhren', Vol. 4, Overath 2017
Sold
estimated
15.000—30.000 €
Price realized
20.500 €