ERNEST BOREL

ERNEST BOREL, SWITZERLAND, WESTMINSTER CHIME CARILLON, MOVEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO EDOUARD JEAN RICHARD MINUTE REPEATER WITH FOUR HAMMERS STRIKING ON FOUR GONGS, 18K YELLOW GOLD A very fine and very rare, large, 18k yellow gold, manual wind hunting-cased, keyless, minute repeating pocket watch with carillon Westminster chime with four hammers on four gongs. Brand: Ernest Borel, Switzerland Model: WESTMINSTER CHIME CARILLON Year: Circa 1900 Case: 84572 Movement: 84572 / 3647 Caliber: 45 mm., gilt brass, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on four gongs with four hammers activated by a slide on the band. Diameter: 55 mm. Weight: 120 gr. Signature: Dial, case and movement Grading System: AAA (Excellent) Case: 3 (Good) Dial: 3-01 (Good , HANDS Original) Movement: 3* (Good , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense) HKD: 96,000 - 192,000 USD: 12,200 - 24,300 EUR: 10,800 - 21,600 JPY: 1,920,000 - 3,840,000 Edouard Jean Richard 1867-1944. From a watchmaking family, Edouard Jean Richard was the son of Virgile and Adèle Jean Richard, and the brother of Achille Jean Richard. He was born in La Sagne on October 1867 and died in Le Locle on June 30, 1944. Jean Richard founded his watchmaking firm in 1915, having previously made ebauches for other companies. He specialized in musical carillon watches with multiple gongs and can be considered the 20th century master of the carillon watch. JeanRichard made a carillon watch with seven gongs playing the Swiss national Anthem see Antiquorum April 13, 2003, lot 558. The company was listed in 1923, and the following year advertized chronographs, sports timers, ring watches, jewelry watches, women's wristwatches, fly-back repeaters, and ultra-thin watches. Another ad from the same period stated that the company made repeating carillon watches with multiple hammers playing the whole of "God save the King" which at the time was the same tune as the Swiss national Anthem; very few of these were made. Jean Richard's movements are very characteristic with certain features found only in his watches, such as the shape of the spring for the surprise element, the steel insert at the barrel bridge, the shape of the star bridge, etc. In the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds there is a gold hunting-cased quarter-repeating watch playing the "Ranz des vaches" on six gongs. Jean Richard's movements were used by such horological masters as Paul Ditisheim.

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