Albert Potter
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Front Cover Face Front Cover Mark Back Back Mark Cuvette Cuvette Mark Movement View 1 Movement View 2 Potter began his career most likely in New York although there is some evidence he may have first done some work in Massachusetts. He seems to have been moving a lot about the time of the Civil War. Perhaps he was reluctant to be a soldier. He also made some watches in Cuba and eventually ended up in Switzerland. His most well known watches are those based on the "AP" plate design ebauche as in this example. He is most famous for his pivoted detent chronometers which set the standard for all Swiss work. This watch is cased in a J&S 14K case that could easily be mistaken for original. Most if not all Potters of the period of this watch would have been in signed cases. However, Patek sold watches in J&S cases, so it would be easy to be fooled. This particular movement was cased in 1996. The serial number on this example is 588. Albert Potter's brother W. C. Potter had a retail jewelry business in Chicago for quite a while and various watches show up with the W. C. Potter name including examples by Vacheron and other top Swiss makers. |
