Dumas French Detent Deck Watch
Fine and scarce French pivoted detent boxed deck watch by Onésime Dumas,
Paris, circa 1840.
Silver dial with large subsidiary seconds and winding indicator
Spotted full plate fusee movement with helical hairspring.
Three tiered wooden box.
Dumas comes from a distinguished chronometer background. He was the nephew of Henry Motel
and the pupil of Louis Frederick Perrelet.
He exhibited works of precision horology in 1856 in Rouen and chronometers in 1857 in Paris.
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6228
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$7,500
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Bezel Diameter 71 mm
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Circa 1840
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NOTE: The small circles or shadows in some of our photos
are reflections of the camera lens. Since this watch is much smaller than in the
enlarged photos, a tiny blemish or imperfection that you could not see when looking
at the actual watch can appear very large in the photos.
