3,000 CHF
HAUCHAR – QUARTER-REPEATING PENDANT WATCH J. D. Hauchar, Elève de Breguet à Paris, No. 480. Made circa 1815. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set pendant watch with a short gold chain and key. Four-body, Empire, reeded band, pearl-set bezel, the back set with a panel of royal blue translucent enamel over sunray engine-turning, pearl-set border. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. 30 mm., matte gilt, standing barrel, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance, fl at balance spring, index regulator, repeating on polished square-section gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette signed. Diam. 37 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-03-11
