13,225 CHF
Perusset, Eleve de Breguet, circa 1825. Fine and rare silver watch a seconde d'un coup. Three body, "forme collier" engine-turned (the back worn). Silver engine-turned with Roman numerals on a polished chapter ring and subsidiary seconds. Bold Breguet hands. Notes Note: By its style, its quality and other technical features, such as the escapement, the balance with elastic suspension, the free sprung helical balance spring with terminal curves, and the dead centre seconds mechanism, this pocket lever chronometer can be compared with the best production of Breguet, for the same period, in the l field of watches coast) riles sue he pdncipe des Garde Temps. Only used by Breguet and a few of his best pupils, the so called d wonder (lava coup was invented by Breguet to avoid the subsidiary train of the regular (lead independent centre second mechanism as invented by Moise Pouzait and used by most of the other watchmakers.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
