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HENRI GRANDJEAN & CIE LE LOCLE NO. 38910 MANUFACTURED CIRCA 1905 A FINE, RARE AND HEAVY GOLD HUNT...

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HENRI GRANDJEAN & CIE LE LOCLE NO. 38910 MANUFACTURED CIRCA 1905 A FINE, RARE AND HEAVY GOLD HUNT...
HENRI GRANDJEAN & CIE
LE LOCLE
NO. 38910
MANUFACTURED CIRCA 1905
A FINE, RARE AND HEAVY GOLD HUNTER-CASED ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON WATCH, AWARDED FIRST PRIZE AT NEUCHATEL OBSERVATORY IN 1906
18K, LE LOCLE CALIBER NICKEL LEVER MOVEMENT, GUILLAUME BALANCE WITH GOLD AND PALLADIUM COMPENSATION SCREWS, FLAT BLUED STEEL BREGUET SPRING, ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON WITH POLISHED STEEL THREE-ARM CARRIAGE, RUBY ENDSTONE, CENTER JEWEL CARRIED IN GOLD SCREWED CHATON, HINGED GLAZED AND GOLD CUVETTES, WHITE ENAMEL DIAL, BLACK ROMAN NUMERALS, 5-BAR HINGES, POLISHED CASE
SIGNED ON CUVETTE, CASE, NUMBERED ON MOVEMENT, CUVETTE AND CASE, FURTHER
NUMBERED UNDERNEATH THE DIAL 38910, 67.2, 3711 AND 4
DIAMETER 59 MM
CHF 60,000-80,000
$ 40,000-50,000
this WATCH IS ACCOMPANIED
BY A FITTED WOODEN BOX AND A COPY OF THE BULLETIN DE MARCHE FROM THE NEUCHATEL OBSERVATORY.
THE REPORT FROM THE NEUCHATEL OBSERVATORY FROM 1906 CONFIRMS THAT
THE PRESENT WATCH WAS AWARDED A FIRST PRIZE IN
THE CATEGORY OF POCKET CHRONOMETERS AND RANKED THIRD AMONG 45 OTHER PARTICIPANTS SUBMITTED
FOR TRIAL THAT YEAR.
THIS WATCH IS LISTED
IN REINHARD MEIS,
DAS TOURBILLON, P. 346,
AS THE LAST OF EIGHT KNOWN TOURBILLON WATCHES BY HENRI GRANDJEAN. INTERESTINGLY, IT IS ALSO LISTED UNDER CH.-F. PERRET WHO BECAME GRANDJEAN'S BUSINESS SUCCESSOR. PERRET, ALSO FROM
LE LOCLE, WAS KNOWN AS AN EXTREMELY SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED CHRONOMETER MAKER and adjuster.
BOTH LITERATURE AND THE ACCOMPANYING COPY OF THE BULLETIN DE MARCHE CONFIRM THAT IT WAS CH.-F. PERRET
WHO ADJUSTED THE PRESENT WATCH BEFORE SUBMITTING
IT FOR TRIAL.
THE ERNST ZSCHIESCHE
FLYING-TOURBILLON WATCH FROM THE DEUTSCHE
UHRMACHERSCHULE
Ernst Zschiesche was born in 1906 in Mühlheim an der Ruhr, where his parents ran a watch store.
He started studying at
the watchmaking school, Glashütte in 1926,
where he manufactured
the present Tourbillon
watch that earned him his
diploma in 1927.
After having been adjusted by Alfred Helwig, the present watch was submitted in 1932 to a timing contest at the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg where it successfully passed with excellent results.
Ernst Zschiesche worked
in various cities until returning to Mühlheim where he took over his parents' business.
He passed away in 1973.
Literature
- Reinhard Meis, DAS TOURBILLON, pp. 55 and p. 359
- Alfred Helwig, DREHGANGUHREN
- Kurt Herkner, GLASHÜTTE UND SEINE UHREN
- Fritz von Osterhausen,
DIE TOURBILLONBAUER, Klassik Uhren 5/99
Ernst Zschiesche
(Standing, second from left),
Dr. Karl Giebel, Director of the
Uhrmacherschule Glashütte
(Seated, first from right),
Prof. Alfred Helwig, inventor
of the flying tourbillon
(Seated, second from right)
Property of the family
of Ernst Zschiesche
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