91,500 CHF
The Grand Duke Alexis Breguet, No. 1745, sold on December 31, 1894 to Grand Duc Alexis of Russia for 3,000 Francs. Very fine and rare, silver "hump-back", eight day going, "Grande et Petite sonnerie" carriage clock with alarm and quarter-repeating. Three-body, polished with hinged bezel and back door. Four bun-feet and silver chain handle. Silver with Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, concentric inner alarm setting ring with gold hand, engine-turned center. Blued steel "spade" hands. Gilt brass engine-turned dial plate. "Hump-back", 12.5 x 9.8 cm., full plate cylindrical pillars, double going barrel for going and striking trains, platform with straight line "moustache" lever escapement, cut bimetalic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, quarter repeating and striking two gongs, alarm striking on its own third gong, Grande and Petite Sonnerie/Silent selection levers above the dial, repeating button on the top. Dial and movement signed. Dim. Height 15,5 cm., width 12 cm. Notes The present carriage clock was sold by Antiquorum, New York, on December 4, 2002, lot 351. From an European Collector Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch Romanov (1850-1908) The fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt. Admiral-general and minister of the Russian Imperial Marine, Alexis became quite popular in the United States when he visited the country. In 1872, he took part in a buffalo hunt w Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
