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Lot Essay
The present watch is an early and technically interesting two time zone watch with two separately wound wheel trains for the two time zones, the stoppable independent centre seconds and flying 1/4ths of a second indications.
Its ébauche was made by Louis Audemars in 1839 and sold with its case to Heinrich Lindemann who finished the movement around 1842, incorporation an escapement with unusual counterpoised lever (illustrated in Louis-Benjamin Audemars - His Life and Work by Hartmut Zantke, p. 205). He then sold it to the watch and jewellery retailer William F. Ladd at 27 Wall Street in New York.
Heinrich Lindemann (b. 1821 in Hamburg) started his own business in Switzerland in 1845, where he married the daughter of a watch manufacturer in Le Locle. In 1862 Lindemann became an instructor at the watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Shortly afterwards he opened a workshop for special winding mechanisms in Neuchâtel; as business was slow, he accepted the position of Director of the German Watchmaking School in Glashütte, Saxony. The newly founded school began its training of apprentices under Lindemann's direction on 1 May 1878. Lindemann remained director of the school until his death on 29 March 1885 in Glashütte.
Its ébauche was made by Louis Audemars in 1839 and sold with its case to Heinrich Lindemann who finished the movement around 1842, incorporation an escapement with unusual counterpoised lever (illustrated in Louis-Benjamin Audemars - His Life and Work by Hartmut Zantke, p. 205). He then sold it to the watch and jewellery retailer William F. Ladd at 27 Wall Street in New York.
Heinrich Lindemann (b. 1821 in Hamburg) started his own business in Switzerland in 1845, where he married the daughter of a watch manufacturer in Le Locle. In 1862 Lindemann became an instructor at the watchmaking school in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Shortly afterwards he opened a workshop for special winding mechanisms in Neuchâtel; as business was slow, he accepted the position of Director of the German Watchmaking School in Glashütte, Saxony. The newly founded school began its training of apprentices under Lindemann's direction on 1 May 1878. Lindemann remained director of the school until his death on 29 March 1885 in Glashütte.