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Alphonse Pavid à Genève, Werk Nr. 1958, Geh. Nr. 1958, 50 mm, 101 g, circa 1893 Bedeutendes, seltenes Ankerchronometer mit einer Variante der System "Bandurski"-Unruh Geh.: 18Kt Gold, glatt, rückseitiges Wappen mit Motto: "Semper Fidelis" ("Immer treu"), Goldcuvette mit Gravur: "Chronomètre No. 1958 Systémes de Raquette & Balancier inventés & exécutes par A. Pavid Fabricant & Regléur. Diplôme de marche de Chronométre de bord obtenu à Neuchâtel en 1908". Ziffbl.: Email, radiale röm. Stunden, äußere Fünfminutenteilung mit radialen arabischen Minuten, kleine versilberte Sekunde, aufgeschraubtes Sekundenblatt, gebläute Robert Roskell Zeiger. Werk: Brückenwerk, gekörnt, vergoldet, wolfsverzahnte Aufzugsräder, Kolbenzahn-Ankerhemmung, patentierte Unruh mit ineinander verzahnten Stahl- und Messingreifen und sechs Justier- und Gewichtsschrauben, gebläute Breguet-Spirale.

Provenienz Sammlung "Gerd Ahrens"

An important and rare lever chronometer with a variation of the system "Bandurski" balance Case: 18k gold, polished, on the back side crest with motto: "Semper Fidelis" ("always abiding"), gold dome with engraving: "Chronomètre No. 1958 Systémes de Raquette & Balancier inventés & exécutes par A. Pavid Fabricant & Regléur. Diplôme de marche de Chronométre de bord obtenu à Neuchâtel en 1908". Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours, outer five-minute divisions with radial Arabic minutes, silvered auxiliary seconds, screwed dial, blued Robert Roskell hands. Movm.: bridge movement, frosted, gilt, wolfteeth winding wheels, club-tooth lever escapement, patented balance with interlocked steel and brass circlets with six adjusting and weight screws, blued Breguet balance spring.

Provenance "Gerd Ahrens" Collection

Further information on Alphonse Pavid is available at www.uhren-muser.de

Alphonse Pavid, Geneva Geneva maker of pocket chronometers and regleur Jean-Louis Alphonse Pavid was born on June 17, 1853 and christened on October 3 of the same year. Alphonse was the son of Louis Pavid and Emma Henriette Gaillard; Louis, who was at the time a citizen of Gressy and Grandson, worked as a watchmaker and jeweller in Yverdon, Faubourg de la Maison Ronge no. 14. Alphonse’s confirmation was celebrated on March 21, 1869 and he worked in the Geneva workshops of Albert Potter in the late 1870s and the early 1880s. From 1884 to about 1915 Alphonse Pavid received a number of test certificates for his chronometers; they were issued by the observatories in Geneva (1884, 1887 -1896, 190..), Neuchâtel (1908) and Kew-Teddington (JSH, several editions). During the chronometer test in 1891 Alphonse received an award for 6th place in the serial testing; the five best chronometers of each maker were judged (JHS, 1891). On April 12, 1893 Alphonse invented a regulation system with flexible balance spring studs and a bimetallic compensation balance spring in an unusual design ("steel-brass balance, System Pavid"). It looks like neither of these inventions was ever registered as a patent though (pocket chronometer no. 1958). In 1894 Alphonse Pavid and Genoese precision regleurs G.-Marie Rouge, Alexis Favre, J. Cordier, Charles-Auguste Paillard and Marius Fave introduced a reform of the chronometer testing process (Gautier, 1894). 1896 Alphonse Pavid exhibited his products at the national Swiss exhibition in Geneva and was awarded a prize with distinction in the serial tests for regleurs: 9th place out of 19, with distinction (JHS, 1896). The prize was awarded for the average mark for the three best chronometers.

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