A. H. Potter, Boston

• gilt lever movement, 9 jewels, one minute tourbillon carriage with inclined bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet hairspring, glazed cuvette • white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds • engine-turned case • dial and movement signed, barrel bridge inscribed Reed's Patent Nov. 24 1857.

Time Museum Inventory No. 2291
Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part Four, October 13th and 14th, 2004, lot 710

Randall, A., The Time Museum Catalogue of Chronometers, catalogue number 135, pp. 282-4.

This highly innovative tourbillon is thought to have been an experimental piece by Albert Potter and according to Anthony Randall, the Time Museum Catalogue of Chronometers it is likely that this piece was never intended for sale. In later case, the case stamped with makers mark C.L.T. The dial with hairlines. It is in running order at time of cataloguing.
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The present watch features a standard movement of the Howard Watch Company which was fitted with a one minute tourbillon by A. H. Potter. This example displays Potter's original solution to the problem of changes in frictional dissipation by having the plane of the balance inclined 25% to the plane of the tourbillon.

For another tourbillon watch with inclined balance, see R. Walter Prendel, 'An Interesting Tourbillon,' in the NAWCC Bulletin, 3 (1949), pp. 636-637.