DELÉPINE | A FINE AND LARGE SILVER POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND HELICAL BALANCE SPRINGCIRCA 1844

• Movement: gilt-brass half-plate fusee movement, Louis Berthoud-type pivoted detent escapement, two-arm compensation balance, with cylindrical compensation weights and timing nuts, free-sprung blued steel helical spring with terminal curves, ruby endstone, winding square with fusee pipe, cylindrical pillars, signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844 • Dial: silvered, Roman numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, signed Fecit Delépine• Case: silver with engine-turned back, band and bezel, case maker's mark L.S. within a diamond cartouche for Léopold Sécheret, back numbered 832 S, silver cuvette with aperture for winding and signed and engraved Delépine Médaillle d'Argent 1844

Antiquorum Geneva, 23 October 1999, lot 43

Delépine exhibited at the Exposition des Produits de l'industrie Française in 1844 where he was awarded a silver medal.