10,925 CHF
Breguet, No. 115, sold to Madame la Maréchale de Lauriston on 30 April 1840.Fine and rare 18 ct. gold pendant watch. Silver, matted, engraved with a neo-Gothic rosette in the centre, champlevé Roman chapters, outer minute dot divisions. Gold Breguet hands. Notes The watch employs a very unusual, apparently experimental balance: the top part is made of steel and is fused to the platinum bottom. Apparently, Breguet conceived a new type of bimetallic compensation and implemented it with this watch.Leopold Secheret, casemaker, entered his mark in Paris in May 1834. He was the casemaker Breguet Neveu most used.Madame la Maréchale de Lauriston was the wife of Jacques Law, Marquis de LAURISTON (1768 - 1828), Aide de camp to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 and 1805, Ambassador to Russia in 1811, and nominated Maréchal de France by Louis XVIII. He participated in the 1823 Spanish expedition.Breguet Abraham LouisFor a biography, see page 229.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
