Sold for:
69,000 CHF
69,000 CHF
Breguet à Paris, No. 125, 5/85, movement completed in May 1785, can be identified as the watch sold to 'Monsieur Bailly' (English), in '25 Germinal An 5' (1797), bequeathed in 1817 to 'Son Excellence Monseigneur le Maréchal Duc de Coigny'.Very fine and extremely rare, early, 18 ct. gold, minute repeating watch, dumb and on gong. Notes This is a 1st series movement left unfinished, and completed and sold at a later date.A very similar gold minute repeating watch, No. 128 5/85, is described and illustrated in 'The Art of Breguet', by George Daniels, page 140, fig. 70 a-c.Breguet Abraham LouisFor a biography, see page 229.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
