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POUZAIT Slow-Beat Lever Escapement Antique Pocket Watch
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Beautiful pocket watch with lever escapement according to Moïse Pouzait.
Diameter is 58mm.
Switzerland, early XIX century, circa 1810.
Watch is equipped with extremely rare slow-beat lever escapement, with fusee and chain.
Interesting to note, that watch is keyless one.
The winding and time setting is done with small lever and a gear correspondingly, located at the right side of the dial
Lever escapement was invented in 1755 by English watchmaker Thomas Mudge.
However, in the continental Europe of late XVIII / early XIX it was still rarely used.
In 1786 Jean Moïse Pouzait (1743-1793) presented to the Society of Arts in Geneva a model of his lever escapement, one of the first on the Continent.
The attempt made by Moïse Pouzait featured a lever escapement associated with a large seconds-beating balance. Due to its spectacular aspect, and in spite if its inertia sensitivity, Pouzait's escapement was much appreciated in China, before the invention by Jacot of the so-called "Chinese duplex" ecapement, enabling the production of dead center-seconds watches.
The watch bears "presigeous" signature by Breguet & Fils, in attempt to add value to technically sophisticated watch with rare escapement.
Condition
Watch comes in later silver case.
Dial is in very good condition, please see photos and video.
Movement is in working condition, however isn't tested for time keeping.
Hands seems to be original, mineral glass.
Diameter is 58mm.
Switzerland, early XIX century, circa 1810.
Watch is equipped with extremely rare slow-beat lever escapement, with fusee and chain.
Interesting to note, that watch is keyless one.
The winding and time setting is done with small lever and a gear correspondingly, located at the right side of the dial
Lever escapement was invented in 1755 by English watchmaker Thomas Mudge.
However, in the continental Europe of late XVIII / early XIX it was still rarely used.
In 1786 Jean Moïse Pouzait (1743-1793) presented to the Society of Arts in Geneva a model of his lever escapement, one of the first on the Continent.
The attempt made by Moïse Pouzait featured a lever escapement associated with a large seconds-beating balance. Due to its spectacular aspect, and in spite if its inertia sensitivity, Pouzait's escapement was much appreciated in China, before the invention by Jacot of the so-called "Chinese duplex" ecapement, enabling the production of dead center-seconds watches.
The watch bears "presigeous" signature by Breguet & Fils, in attempt to add value to technically sophisticated watch with rare escapement.
Condition
Watch comes in later silver case.
Dial is in very good condition, please see photos and video.
Movement is in working condition, however isn't tested for time keeping.
Hands seems to be original, mineral glass.
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