Live Auction 1391Important Watches, including A Gentleman's Pursuit for Excellence, Part I
Rieussec. A probably unique and historically important inking chronograph with cylinder escapement, housed in mahogany box
Lot 67

Rieussec. A probably unique and historically important inking chronograph with cylinder escapement, housed in mahogany box

SIGNED RIEUSSEC HOROLOGER DU ROI, CHRONOGRAPHE, BREVET D'INVENTION, CIRCA 1821/22

Closed12 November 2012

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Rieussec. A probably unique and historically important inking chronograph with cylinder escapement, housed in mahogany box
Signed Rieussec Horologer du Roi, Chronographe, Brevet d'Invention, circa 1821/22
Mechancial cylinder movement, plain three-arm balance, two revolving silvered dials on the front plate, the upper one for minutes, the lower one for seconds, both with fixed blued steel inking hand, brass button on the left side of the fausse-plaque activates the inking hand, brass button on the right starts and stops the movement, front plate signed
143 mm. long & 114 mm. wide (measured without box)

Etude Couturier & de Nicolay, Paris, Jean-Claude Sabrier, Louviers, expert, Public Auction, 4 June 1982, Collection Augustin Seguin, Horloges anciennes, Montres et Garde-temps, lot 30 et la biographie pp. 4-5

Specialist note

It is very interesting to note that this historically important inking chronograph by Rieussec is not numbered, but instead inscribed "Chronographe, Brevet d'Invention". One may speculate for the reasons why Rieussec didn't number this superb piece, but one very logical explanation may be that this example here is the very one he used to obtain his patent.