Delépine

A FINE AND LARGE SILVER POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND HELICAL BALANCE SPRING CIRCA 1844

• Movement: gilt-brass half-plate fusee movement, Louis Berthoud-type pivoted detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance, with cylindrical compensation weights and timing nuts, free-sprung blued steel helical spring with terminal curves, ruby endstone, winding square with fusee pipe, cylindrical pillars, signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844
• Dial: silvered, Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, signed Fecit Delépine
• Case: silver with engine-turned back, band and bezel, case maker's mark L.S. within a diamond cartouche for Léopold Sécheret, back numbered 832 S, silver cuvette with aperture for winding and signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844
diameter 66mm

Provenance:
Antiquorum Geneva, 23 October 1999, lot 43