69,000 CHF
Giteau (Elève de Breguet), Palais Royal, No. 129, à Paris, circa 1825. Fine mahogany hour and half hour-striking, two week mantel regulator with centre-seconds and orrery. Rectangular, glazed on four sides with gilt brass mounts, the gilt bezel chased with leaf decoration, and the orrery mounted on the top. Set on four gilt brass block feet. White enamel with Roman nmerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands with pierced tips. Circular brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, going-barrel on both the going and the striking trains, pin-wheel escapement set on the back plate, half seconds beating gridiron pendulum with knife edge suspension. Orrery driven by the going train and revolving once a year with an annual calendar with small subsidiary dials for the days of the week and 24 hours, apertures for the years from 1800 to 1899, showing the revolution of Venus, Mercury and the Earth around the sun, the Moon revolving around the latter in 29 days, 12 hours and 44 seconds. Signed on the dial. h1 very good condition. Dim. 68 x 25 x 18 cm. Notes Frederick Louis Fatton One of the most eminent pupils of Breguet. He settled in London, New Bond Street, where he was the agent for Breguet and made several very fine clocks and watches in the style of his illustrious master. He made for Breguet several ink-recording chronograph watches for which he took out a patent in 1822. From 1822 onwards he produced "blancs-roulants" for Breguet's pocket chronometers. He frequently signed: Fatton,
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
