113,500 CHF
Breguet et Fils No. 1805, petite pendule à quatre parties, started on 21 Germinal An 13 (April 11, 1805) and sold to Monsieur André Berker on 26 Prairial an 13 (June 15, 1805) for 1.800 Francs.Very fine and rare mahogany, eight-day going, quarter repeating grande et petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and special escapement, with contemporary fitted box. White enamel, slightly convex, with Breguet numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. Brass rectangular with large double wheel barrel driving the going as well as the striking trains, pltform mounted dead-beat verge escapement with sapphire circular pallets and 11-teeth escape wheel, three-arm balance with eight gold timing and poising screws at the bottom, blued-steel flat balance spring, balance and escape wheel jeweled with endstones, long index regulator protruding to the end of the platform. Quarter repeating and striking on a bell with the mechanisms mounted on the back plate, top button release. Pull wind alarm striking on the same bell, fitted on the base.Signed Breguet on the dial and Breguet et Fils on the base of the movement.Dim. 18 x 13 x 10 cm. Notes Accompanied by a certificate No. 3845, delivered by Breguet on May 13, 1985.Breguet’s first 'petite pendule à quatre parties' was made about a year before this one.The present lot is the second one.The escapement of this clock is a frictional rest dead beat verge escapement as described by George Daniels in 'The Art of Breguet', p. 314, fig. 393. Althoug
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-10-15
