Strömgren Og Olsen & Alexandre Hüning

A RARE AND INTERESTING SILVER OPEN-FACED ASTRONOMICAL DECK WATCH WITH INDICATIONS FOR SIDEREAL TIME AND EQUATION OF TIME WITH MAHOGANY DECK BOX CIRCA 1920, NO.558

• Movement: gilded unsigned, lever escapement, jewelled to the centre, wolf's tooth winding, bi-metallic compensation, swan-neck regulation, plain polished silver cuvette
• Dial: white enamel, outer ring for minutes and equation of time with Arabic five-minute markers, three sunken subsidiary dials for mean-time hours, sidereal 24-hours and subsidiary seconds, two central minute hands in gilt metal for mean-solar minutes and blued steel for equation, marked patent and signed and numbered Strömgren Og Olsen, no. 558
• Case: silver, polished covers, silver pendant and bow, maker's mark AH for Alexandre Hüning, cuvette and case back numbered 54319
• Deck box: mahogany with fitted green baize lined interior, the lid with bevelled glass, retailer's plaque to the surround signed Cornelius Knudsen Kgl. Hof-Instrumentmager, Köbenhavn
diameter 60mm

Provenance:
Habsburg Feldman, Antiquorum Hong Kong, 29 & 30 May 1989, lot 324