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Père Bouhelier. A rare and unusual silver openface quarter repeating keywound lever watch with special escapement
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Père Bouhelier. A rare and unusual silver openface quarter repeating keywound lever watch with special escapement

SIGNED PÈRE BOUHELIER, NO. 773, ECHAPPEMENT LIBRE, CIRCA 1810

已结束2014年11月10日

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Père Bouhelier. A rare and unusual silver openface quarter repeating keywound lever watch with special escapement
Signed Père Bouhelier, No. 773, Echappement Libre, circa 1810
Unusually shaped gilt-finished movement, special polished steel lateral lever escapement with elongated lever arm, the fork engaging a locking pin on the balance pivot, quarter repeating with two steel hammers onto two gongs, hinged gilt cuvette, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, gilt spade hands, plain circular case, quarter repeating pull-twist push-piece in the pendant, cuvette signed and numbered
54 mm. diam.

专家说明

François Joseph Bouhelier, a priest better known as Père or Father Bouhelier, was a native of St. Julien, a small village in the French Comte where the population, the majority farmers, used to produce cylinder escapements for French and Swiss watchmakers during winter. Père Bouhelier had immigrated to England during the French revolution where he presumably learned how to make a lever escapement.

The few watches made by Père Bouhelier known to have survived are all distinguished by the use of a rather uncommon, somehow avant-gardist calibre using a straight line lever escapement, all varying in shape or design.

Antiquarian Horology Bulletin No. 28 of March 2004 explains the early Mudge-Emery-Robin type lever escapement and mentions that a little known maker named Bouhelier made lever escapements of similar construction in the French Jura Mountains (pp. 60 & 61).

For an extensive essay on Père Bouhelier and his watches see Histoire de l'échappement à ancre - les montres à ancre françaises de la première génération by J.C. Sabrier, ANCAHA Association Nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne et d'Art, Bulletin No. 23, 1978, pp. 58-60.