Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments | Skinner Aution 3230M

Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments 3230M | Friday, April 12, 2019 | 10AM | Marlborough

Our April sale features diverse horological collections: The Bernhard Stoeber collection, offering 70 lots of classics and curiosities, and the remaining portion of the John F. Gelson Hamilton Watch Co. collection, which includes some tooling and miscellany from the Hamilton factory, as well as additional model and sample movements. We have an example of a Gawen Brown, Boston, Massachusetts, walnut tall clock dating from 1760 and a small collection of mantel and wall clocks and regulators. Rounding out the horological portion of the sale are vintage and contemporary “tool” watches including a Favre Leuba Bivouac that summitted the Matterhorn in 1968, “dress” watches, and an array of American and European pocket watches.

Skinner is proud to be presenting two significant collections of early surveying instruments: The Collection of the Late William H. Skerritt, Part I, from the Troy, New York, area, and Part II of the Robert Miller Collection of Pennsylvania Surveying Instruments. Also of note is a small group of rare and important photographic instruments and cameras from a private collector, including an early S.J. Levi & Co. “Pullman” camera, of which there are only a few known. You’ll also find an array of cylinder and disc musical boxes, a small collection of 19th century European steam engines, medical apparatus, and fountain pens.

3230M | Friday, April 12 | 10AM 274 Cedar Hill Street | Marlborough, MA Preview:

Pocket Watches

Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments

Wednesday, April 10, 12–5PM Thursday, April 11, 12–7PM

Jonathan Dowling clocks@skinnerinc.com | 508.970.3131

MA LIC. 2304

View the auction at skinnerinc.com/auctions/3230M

John Hallifax Musical Bracket Clock

James Allan & Co. 14kt Gold Multicolored Box-hinged Hunter-case Watch

Waltham 18kt Gold Semibox Hunter-case Watch

Illinois “Bunn Special” Open-face Watch

Dudley Watch Co. 14kt Gold Model No. 2 “Masonic” Model Pocket Watch

IWC Open-face 14kt Gold Watch

Unusual Appleton Tracy & Co. Hunter Case Watch

The Collection of Bernhard Stoeber Bernhard Stoeber was born into a family of watchmakers, raised in a small town in Germany not far from Frankfurt/Main. He apprenticed from 1969 to 1972 and graduated with honors from the Watchmaking School in Pforzheim. After receiving his Master Watchmaker Diploma in 1975, he started to work for the German affiliate of Omega and Tissot where he advanced to become the group leader responsible for servicing electronic, tuning fork, and early quartz watches as well as chronographs.

In 1978 Bernhard was invited to Omega in Biel/Bienne for an internship that included training at Lemania where he was taught to service caliber 321. He was most likely one of the last service technicians to be trained on caliber 321 at Lemania, as it ceased production in the late 1960s.

In 1991, he attended WOSTEP in Switzerland and participated in a course on complicated watches and their restoration taught by Antoine Simonin. Upon his return, NAWC promoted him to VP of Technical Operations overseeing the Service Division as well as the QC Department for new watches. He also became responsible for the Corporate Collection of vintage watches and was instrumental in acquiring interesting pieces of which many are featured in the book The Movado History, written by Fritz von Osterhausen and published in 1996.

Bernhard has spent his lifetime perfecting the creation, service, and quality control surrounding watches and their technicians, working for such storied houses as NAWC (today the Movado Group), Omega, Tissot, and Rolex in Germany, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong, and across the U.S.

Longines Open-face Instantaneous Minute Pocket Chronograph

Very Rare and Unusual Pocket Chronograph

Unusual Zenith Open-face Alarm Watch

Join us Thursday, April 11th:

Speedmaster: The Evolution of Calibers 321 & 861 Bernhard Stoeber will discuss the history of these movements and their relevance in today’s watch collecting world.

5PM Reception | 6PM Presentation

rsvp: events@skinnerinc.com

Limited Edition Movado 18kt Gold “1881 Suisse” Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch with Box, Papers, and Book Tudor “Tiger” Prince Date Reference 79270 with Box and Papers

Limited Edition 18kt Gold Piaget Reference 15908 Triple-date Wristwatch Early Silver Singlepush Manual-wind Chronograph

Wristwatches

Rolex Submariner Stainless Steel Reference 5513 “Feet First” Wristwatch

Rolex Stainless Steel Explorer Reference 1016 Wristwatch

Enicar Mark III Sherpa Guide Automatic Wristwatch

Rolex “Red” Submariner Reference 1680 Stainless Steel Wristwatch with Box and Papers

opposite: Selections from our Tool and Dress Wristwatches, including Patek, Rolex, Vacheron Constantine, LeCoultre, Bulova, and Favre Leuba

Clocks Find full descriptions & photographs online at skinnerinc.com/auctions/3230M

opposite: Mahogany Pinwheel Wall Regulator

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Portico Clock

Gothic or Cathedralform Fusee Skeleton Clock

Benjamin Willard No. 295 Mahogany Tall Clock

Daniel Burnap Cherry Tall Clock

Gardner Parker No. 126 Mahogany Inlaid Tall Clock

Rare Norddeutscher Lloyd Breman Line Agent’s Globe

Large 4-inch James Short Reflecting Library Telescope

Scientific Instruments opposite right:

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Husbands & Clarke Compound Binocular Microscope

19th Century Miniature Brass Steam Engine Model

Rare Powell & Lealand No. 2 Monocular Microscope Sailor-made Fourteensecond Ship’s Log or Sandglass

English Live Steam 4-6-0 Locomotive and Tender Scratch-built Wooden Patent Model of a Rail Car Electrified Horizontal Bench-made Stationary Engine

opposite: Early Nikon M Rangefinder Camera and Lenses C.P. Goerz PhotoStereo Binocle Camera

Cameras Including a collection of rare and important cameras from a small private collection

Uncommon Black/Chrome Leica III Camera Leica I Model B “Rim Set Compur” Lens Carl Zeiss 8.5cm f/4 Triotar Lens

Complete sale listing online at skinnerinc.com/auctions/3230M

Rare S.J. Levi & Co. “The Pullman” Camera H.J. Reding & Gyles “Luzo” Box Camera

The Collection of the Late William H. Skerritt Skerritt was an artist, philanthropist, writer, and scholar—educated as a geologist at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, he became an authority in aggregates and pavement skid resistance but his passion lay in his extensive work with the Rensselaer Historical Society and Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway, promoting the importance of Troy, New York’s, history, architecture, and community. President of the Gateway and Troy Architectural Projects, he helped support the restoration of Troy’s architectural treasures. He gathered and presented an annotated collection of his own drawings and prints of Troy called “Troy as I See It” and he coauthored the book The Great Fire of Troy. His passion for history’s objects spurred collecting in many genres, and Skinner is proud to offer the first part of his important historical collection of Troy’s instrument makers’ work, as well as documents and archive material. These include Hanks’ family instruments, Meneely family pieces, and of course his collection of Gurley Precision Instrument Company items, from rare surveying instruments to early manuals and catalogs including William Gurley’s 1873 personal copy of American Engineer’s & Surveyor’s Instruments. We look forward to offering the last part of Bill’s collection in the fall.

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Selections from the William H. Skerritt Collection

John Heilig Brass Surveyor’s Compass

Omega Speedmaster Reference 2998-3 (detail)

Unusual Heisely & Son Vernier Compass Rare “Burt’s Solar” Compass Prototype by William J. Young

The Robert C. Miller Collection of Pennsylvania Surveying Instruments

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