29,900 CHF
Breguet, Horloger de la Marine Royale, No. 3357, sold on September 9, 1820 to Machado for 2108 Francs. Very fine and rare, 20K gold, half quarter-repeating watch with jump-hour. By master casemaker Tavernier, No. 3691, "forme quatre baguettes", engine-turned, gold hinged cuvette with aperture for steel winding crank lever. Silver, by Tavernier, champlevé Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned center, subsidiary sunk seconds at 4 o’clock. Blued steel Breguet hands. 52 mm (23’’’), frosted gilt, bridge caliber, jeweled to the center, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, 3-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute on the top pivot, compensation curb, movement wound by pivoted crank lever fitted to the winding arbor, Breguet repetition system, repeating on single gong by pull-and-twist piston in the pendant.Signed on the dial and cuvette, numbered on the movement and the case.Diam. 57 mm. Notes Provenance: Time Museum
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
