uhren - Auktionen Dr. Crott

The Auctions
Several auctions are being held per year; each
and every one is carefully and extensively
prepared. The diverse special auctions offer a
comprehensive range of watches and clocks of
all epochs and are also a popular and attractive
meeting point for many renowned collectors,
dealers and experts. Bidders who cannot attend
or wish to remain anonymous can either deliver
a written bid or bid per telephone during the
auction. With regard to our international
customer base we have chosen the Sheraton
Hotel at Frankfurt Airport for our auctions, an
elegant venue with perfect infrastructure. This
makes for easy transportation for our national
and international clientele, and the hotel can
be reached directly from the airport terminal
via a pedestrian overpass.
Should you require an expert evaluation of your
timepieces in the comfort of your own home,
it will be a pleasure for us to accommodate you.
Especially where very high-quality collections
are concerned we lay great value on personal
on-site consultations, worldwide. For a free-ofcharge
and non-binding estimate, please send
us the photographs of your objects to
info@uhren-muser.de.
After consignment our dedicated team sets
about preparing for the auction. All objects are
professionally photographed and extensively
documented. This complex and time-consuming
process is the prerequisite for presenting the
timepieces in an appropriate setting in our
high-quality multilingual auction catalogues
and of course on our company website
www.uhren-muser.de.
In the course of our company‘s history we have
established a large international customer base
including many museums, dealers and private
collectors; all our clients receive their copy of our
catalogue in the run-up to the auction.
Carefully placed national and international
advertising campaigns as well as intensive press
and PR work help publicise the range of objects
presented at the auctions.
Excerpts from our auction catalogues:
557
Uhrenfabrik Union Glashütte in Sachsen Movm. No. 44502,
circa 1902
An important Glashuette gold hunting case pocket watch -
of museum quality so called “Grande Complication”
Case: 18K gold, 394 gr., 75mm diameter, Lucia à goutte form,
tiered, 5-part hinges, central part with two pushers for split
seconds chronograph and slide for minute repetition, lever for
on/off self strike, lever for choosing between Grande- or Petite
Sonnerie. Gold dome, glazed movement.
Dial: enamel, six-piece, Arabic numerals, outer chronograph scale,
inner five minute divisions, sunk day-, date- and month indication
regarding the leap year, split seconds chronograph and 30 min.
counter, cobalt blue enamelled golden moon phase disc with
applied gold moon and stars, auxiliary seconds, flying fifths of a
seconds indication “seconde foudroyante”.
Movm.: 2/3 plate movement, frosted, gilt, gold-chatoned, blued/
mirror polished screws, tandem wind with mirror polished
click works on the top, mirror polished chronograph levers with
polished bevelling, ratchet wheel, finest pink gold chronograph
wheels, mirror polished double hand tong with polished bevelling,
separate ratchet wheel for split seconds chronograph, 2 hammers,
2 gongs, gold lever and escape wheel, blued hairspring, gold
screw compensation balance, index spring fine adjusting device,
diamond endstone.
As Bernd Schaarschmidt reports on the history of the
Glashuette watch company “Union”:
“… A masterpiece of our local watchmaking industry was recently
presented and explained to us in great detail by a representative
of the company ‘Union’ Duerrstein & Co., Glashuette and Dresden,
makers of precision watches. This complicated work of art, which
represents a quite considerable amount of value, has an 18K gold
case and weighs about 300 grams. The watch was made to order
and is the 6th of its kind (!); it shows date, day of the week and
month and automatically adjusts the date and the leap year. The
reading of the time is exact to 1/5 of a second. The watch repeats
the minutes and strikes the quarter hour and the hour.” (From
a record dated May 1898)
Another recount from a visit to the „Union“ watch company in
September 1902 states:
“Mr. Bergter, the director of the Duerrstein watch company
‘Union’ showed us two special new precision pocket watches in
gold cases and told us, that he did most of the design work as
well as the actual manufacturing himself.”
The watches referred to were nos. 55806 and 44502. The exquisite
execution of the steel parts as well their harmony and beauty are
a fine example of the unmatched craftsmanship of Julius Bergter
and Martin Simmchen.
300.000 – 400.000 EUR
379.800 – 506.400 USD