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Bahne Bonniksen
An 18k gold hunter case pin-set pocket watch with 52 1/2 minute carousel, white dial with Roman numerals and small seconds, blued hands, gilt movement signed Maker to the Admiralty, B. Bonniksen, 16 Norfolk Street Coventry, serial no. 58719. Cases hallmarked F.T. for Frederick Thoms, London 1914–1915. Weight in total 127 g. Diam. 50 mm.
Bahne Bonniksen (Bov, Sønderjylland 1860 - England 1935). A Danish watchmaker and inventor who moved to England as a 24-year-old and obtained English citizenship in 1910. Bonniksen was a great admirer of the tourbillon invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet around 1795. Bonniksen set out to develop a watch that was as robust and reliable as a normal anchor watch but with the precision of the tourbillon. In 1892, he developed the “Carousel”, which he received a patent for in 1906. The carousel was both more practical and cheaper than the tourbillon invented by Breguet.
Wristwatches, 9 March 2021