The KARRUSEL – B BONNIKSEN, 16 Norfolk St, Coventry
A group of rare adverts placed by this most important watchmaker, the inventor of the karrusel.
£12.00
Four original and different adverts extracted from the Horological Journal, the earliest being from 1893 and the last from 1911. Approximate advert size 7 x 4 ins (17.7 x 10 cm)
Bahne Bonniksen, 16 Norfolk St, Coventry, Patent No 21,421, November 1892, inventor of a revolving carriage ‘karrusel’ in which the escapement and balance is made to turn 360 degrees in 52 1/2 minutes (34 minutes in centre-second movements). This was done in order to cancel out the deleterious effects of gravity in fixed escapement watches. NB: Doing essentially the same as devised by John Arnold, and first made by A-L Breguet who called it a tourbillon, the karrusel differs in as much as the power of the mainspring drives both the carriage and the escapement. In the tourbillon the mainspring drives only the carriage, the escape wheel pinion being driven by a fixed wheel mounted under the carriage – the karrusel does not have a fixed wheel.
NB: When bound, the non-paginated advert sections within the HJ were almost always removed and discarded, as can be seen (or rather not seen) in the copy digitised and made available on the website run by the Antiquarian Horological Society. Complete individual copies of the HJ are almost never now encountered, so these original adverts are truly rare survivors extracted from the few loose individual copies I have managed to acquire over the last fifty years. I don’t expect to see/get any more.
I have imaged just one of the adverts, the others are different. The paper showing some of the expected age browning, but generally in good clean and complete condition. Ideal for research and/or framing.
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Four original and different adverts extracted from the Horological Journal, the earliest being from 1893 and the last from 1911. Approximate advert size 7 x 4 ins (17.7 x 10 cm)
Bahne Bonniksen, 16 Norfolk St, Coventry, Patent No 21,421, November 1892, inventor of a revolving carriage ‘karrusel’ in which the escapement and balance is made to turn 360 degrees in 52 1/2 minutes (34 minutes in centre-second movements). This was done in order to cancel out the deleterious effects of gravity in fixed escapement watches. NB: Doing essentially the same as devised by John Arnold, and first made by A-L Breguet who called it a tourbillon, the karrusel differs in as much as the power of the mainspring drives both the carriage and the escapement. In the tourbillon the mainspring drives only the carriage, the escape wheel pinion being driven by a fixed wheel mounted under the carriage – the karrusel does not have a fixed wheel.
NB: When bound, the non-paginated advert sections within the HJ were almost always removed and discarded, as can be seen (or rather not seen) in the copy digitised and made available on the website run by the Antiquarian Horological Society. Complete individual copies of the HJ are almost never now encountered, so these original adverts are truly rare survivors extracted from the few loose individual copies I have managed to acquire over the last fifty years. I don’t expect to see/get any more.
I have imaged just one of the adverts, the others are different. The paper showing some of the expected age browning, but generally in good clean and complete condition. Ideal for research and/or framing.