27,600 CHF
A Monsieur le Comte le Moine Watch No. 231, entered into the books on 2 January 1793, sold for the sum of 800 Francs, the date of sale not recorded. Silver watch with "à toc" quarter-repeating and unusual month calendar for 31 days. Original Breguet silver short chain and key. Notes Note: The signature "Breguet à Paris" was used up until 1791, and the gilt numerals are a precursor of the style now generally called " Breguet numerals". The calendar mechanism although conventional in operation, provides an elegant solution, typical of Breguet, to the problem of the owner forgetting to reset the date at the end of the month according to the number of days therein. Later on Breguet found another answer to the same problem; the calendar counted 30 days with a "0" in place of the number "31", and the mechanism was constructed in such a way that the hand remained stationary over the "0" until the user advanced it by hand to the 1st day of the following month.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1991-04-14
