24,000 CHF
Watch with Five Complications Breguet, No. 3466, sold to Monsieur Vangohechen on September 4, 1880 for 3100 francs. Very fine, 18K rose gold, hunting-cased, keyless,minute-repeating watch with triple date calendar and phases and age of the moon. Four-body, "bassine et filets", engine-turned on both covers, the front with an engraved monogram, polished band. Hinged gold cuvette. 42,8 mm, frosted gilt brass, 23 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16