130,000 CHF
Breguet, No. 2428, sold on November 19, 1909 to Empress Maria Feodorovna. Very fine and rare large silver "hump-back", eight day-going grande et petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and quarter-repeating in its original Morocco fitted case. 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 bimetallic 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. Signed on the dial and the movement. Dim. Height 15,5 cm., width 12 cm. Notes Maria Feodorovna Born Princess Dagmar of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1847, she was the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and of Princess Louise de Hesse-Cassel, (the sister of Queen Alexandra of England). Originally betrothed to Great-Duke Nicholas, heir to the throne of Russia, she became the fiancée of his brother Alexander Alexandrovitch, after Nicholas’ sudden death in 1865. They were married in November 1866, whereu
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-10-19
