43,700 CHF
Breguet No. 123, circa 1800. Fine silver pair-cased, Grande Sonnerie striking and quarter repeating coach watch with alarm. Outer shark skin covered with silver star pique work decoration. hn7er double body, Louis XVI, polished with pierced decoration. White enamel by Coteau fils, with Breguet numerals and outer minutes ring. Gold Breguet hands. Hinged gilt-brass full plate with square baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt-brass continental cock with polished-steel end-piece. Striking and repeating hours and quarters on a bell with independent trains, both with going barrels, the striking trains released by means of a pull repeating cord. Alarm with going barrel as well, striking on the same bell. Signed on the dial and back plate, the dial enamel backing signed: Coteau Fils. Diane 119 mm. Notes This watch, which is not recorded in the archives of Breguet and does not carry the French hallmarks, was certainly bought from the trade by the eminent maker, to be sold through one of his foreign agents.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-04-18
