NICOLE NIELSEN & CO. TOURBILLON GRANDE ET PETITE
SONNERIE PERPETUAL CALENDAR & 7 DAY GOING TRAVEL CLOCK SILVER
Nicole Nielsen & Co., London, No. 12080/10902. Made circa 1910.
Very rare and fine grande and petite sonnerie, striking "hump-back" tourbillon carriage clock with
perpetual calendar and 7 day power reserve, in original fitted traveling case with original silver
ratchet key.
Two-body, polished, sides engraved with family crest (In Te Domine Speravi) and initials JTP
(John Theodore Prestige), glass hinged back, under base signed (John Theodore Prestige's watch
chain 1827-1892), gold chain handle.
Enamel, arabic numerals, outer numerals for date indication, subsidiary seconds below 12
o'clock, subsidiary dials for days of the week and month, engine-turned dial plate below with 7
day power reserve indication and strike/silent/quarters. Blued steel spade hands.
Hump-back, 108 x 78 brass plates with turned pillars, reversed fusee with chain and maintaining
power, vertically mounted three arm tourbillon mounted on a bridge, cut bimetallic
compensation balance with Breguet balance spring with terminal curve.