Details
CIRCA: 1885
CASE MATERIAL: 18K gold
DIAMETER: 56 mm
DIAL: White enamel
MOVEMENT: Manual
FUNCTIONS: Minute repeater, stoppable second



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The present watch is a fine example of one of Ekegrén's high quality watches, distinguished by the complicated two train movement combining minute repeating and stoppable independent centre seconds, the personalized dial and the beautifully decorated, heavy gold case.

Henri Robert Ekegrén (1823-1896) was a renowned Danish watch, clock and chronometer maker and watchmaker to the King of Denmark. He worked for Urban Jürgensen, Henry Golay, Joseph-Thaddeus Winnerl and Adolph Lange before setting up his own business in Geneva. In 1857, Ekegrén founded together with Ferdinand Westermann a factory specializing in the production of chronometers which was sold to Edouard Koehn in 1891. He regularly supplied watches to J.E. Caldwell & Company in Philadelphia, renowned retailer of watches made by the most celebrated manufacturers, notably Ekegrén and Patek Philippe.

The personalized dial with the name "Edwin Barbour" replacing the numerals suggests that the watch may have belonged to the actor Edwin Wilbur Barbour who passed away in Philadelphia in 1914.

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