123,750 CHF
GIRARD - EXCEPTIONAL DETENT CHRONOMETER TOURBILLON PRECISION WATCH WITH ENAMEL PORTRAITS OF NAPOLEON I AND EMPRESS JOSEPHINE Girard & Comp (later Girard-Perregaux), Chaux-de-Fonds, 'Chronometre Tourbillon', No. 40066. Made circa 1855. Extremely fine and rare, large, heavy 18K gold and painted on enamel, hunting cased pocket Chronometer with pivoted detent escapement, one-minute tourbillon and regulator dial. Accompanied by an additional white enamel dial. Five-body, bassine et filets, reeded band, the hinged and sprung front cover decorated with a finely painted on enamel portrait of Napoleon I after the painting by Paul Delaroche, in military uniform and wearing the cross and grand eagle of the Lègion D'Honneur, engraved gold foliate border on a black champleve enamel ground, polished outer rim, the back cover with a finely painted on enamel portrait of the Empress Josephine, the border to match the front cover. Hinged gold cuvette engraved 'Chronometre Tourbillon' and with engine-turned border. Matte silver regulator-type, the hour dial with radial Roman numerals, minutes with Arabic numerals, seconds dial with Arabic numerals, decorated with red and blue champleve enamel flowers. Blued steel hands. 45 mm., matte gilt, half-plate, fusee with chain and maintaining power, pivoted detent Chronometer escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished equidistant three-ar
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10