$60,800
Breguet, No. 1745, sold on December 31, 1894 to Grand Duc Alexis of Russia for 3'000 Francs.Very fine and rare, large, 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 "hump-back" model of Breguet carriage clocks was often used, both by the house of Breguet and others, such as Cole in England, two hundred years after its creation. Recently, Breguet issued a very small series of silver "hump-back" carriage clocks, which look practically identical to their predecessors.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-12-04
