DENT CHRONOMETER WITH HEIGHT HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON | Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces. | Hong Kong, October 27th, 2018
DENT CHRONOMETER WITH HEIGHT HOROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON, 18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket chronometer, hinged case-back, subsidiary seconds at 6, one-minute tourbillon regulator and eight horological complications: Minute-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 3 o'clock), Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar, Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 3 o'clock), Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock; indications given in English), Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock; indications given in English), Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 A1/2, and aperture at 6 o'clock), Four-year cycle of leap-years (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock), 30-hour power-reserve indication (subsidiary dial at 12 o'clock) The raised barrel is engraved with medallions announcing appointments (warrants) to "To Her Late Majesty" (Queen Victoria; 1819-1901) and "To Him the Late Emperor of Russia" (Alexander III; 1845-1894). Counter-enamel dial signed "Willis" (the most famous English manufacturer of enamel dials of the time).Brand Dent
Year circa 1902
Caliber 23''' gilded brass, ¾ plate with fusee and chain, screwed-chatons (setting), spring detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance with gold poising screws and blued steel free-sprung hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel tourbillon cage, Nielsen-typ
Dimensions Ø 64 mm.
Signature dial, case and movement
