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Revue Thommen Pallweber rarest digital pocket watch disc watch ca. 1880

Revue Thommen Pallweber rarest digital pocket watch disc watch ca. 1880

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The subject of this offer is a super rare artifact watch history and design legend:

Revue Thommen - Patent Pallweber in every respect well-preserved mechanical, digital men's pocket watch ca. 1885

Rarest digital pocket watch patent Pallweber with digital display, signed GT, (Microlisk: Fabrique d'Horlogerie Thommen SA/ Revue-Thommen, Waldenbourg, Switzerland, registered 1880)

Burnished metal case, silvered, engraved dial with apertures for Arabic hours and minutes, including a small second hand with a blued hand, gold-plated bridge movement with cylinder escapement, ring balance, and flat hairspring, circa 1890, diameter: 50 mm

Movement is in good condition, the dial is unrestored and in good condition considering its age

This magnificent piece of watch and design history runs continuously (accuracy not tested)

EZ: 2: normal, visible signs of age or use, tarnished

The Josef Pallweber digital watch (Source: Watch Wiki):

Pallweber, Joseph




2 IWC Schaffhausen pocket watches with Pallweber patent
Image: A.Vassiliadis

Extract from US Patent No. 312754 on a time display of a clock by Josef Pallweber

IWC digital watch around 1890 with Pallweber patent
Image: Pieces of Time .

Cortébert digital clock around 1895 with Pallweber patent
Image: Pieces of Time .

Austrian engineer, machine manufacturer and inventor



biography

Josef Pallweber was originally from Salzburg and changed his registered residence several times within the German Empire, from Furtwangen to Frankfurt am Main (Schleusenstrasse 17) and Mannheim. In Austria, a company called " Josef Pallweber & Sohn " was also known.

His patent for a digital display ( jumping numeral watch ) for pocket watches (Pallweber patent) showed a new way of displaying the time in the early 1880s using numbers on rotating discs alongside the classic hands. Based on the patent, first Cortébert Watch Co. and then IWC brought watches with digital displays onto the market in 1885. IWC Schaffhausen in particular sold the most, with around 20,000 units, which made the jumping numeral watches the most well-known. Within IWC production, the Pallweber design was improved twice, hence the names Pallweber-I, Pallweber-II and Pallweber-III. The difference lay in small changes within the gears. In addition to the success of IWC Schaffhausen, other manufacturers such as Aeby & Landry Manufacture d´Horlogerie, Gedeon Thommen , A. Kaiser , Dürrstein & Co. , A. Lange & Söhne , Patent Gurzelen Louis Brandt & Fils , A. Wittnauer & Co., Minerva Manufacture d´Horlogerie Minerva SA, Favorite Watch and SADA Montres SA also showed pocket watches with the Pallweber patent.

H. Pataky in Berlin acted as Josef Pallweber's representative for the German Reich, while the trading agency Lenz and Schmidt, also from Berlin, managed the sales interests of the company " J. Pallweber in Salzburg ." In Switzerland, Ebinger and Isler from Zurich represented J. Pallweber's patent interests.


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