200,500 CHF
Breguet - A La Marquise de Béthisy - Silver Carriage Clock with 10 Complications with Original Box & Key – The Most Complicated Breguet Hump-Back Clock Known Breguet, “Montre de Carosse”, No. 1559. Sold to The Marquise de Béthisy on May 6th, 1878, for 4000 Francs. Extremely fine and important, complicated, grande and petite sonnerie striking and repeating, 8-day going, silver hump-back carriage clock with quadruple digital annual perpetual calendar, alarm, moon phases and equation of time. Accompanied by the original Breguet gold-tooled red morocco travelling case, Breguet silver key and certificate. Three-body, hump-back, polished, hinged front and back doors, gold repeat-button, silver carrying chain, bun feet. Silver with radial champlevé Roman numerals on a brushed reserve, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, inner alarm setting divisions, engine-turned center, engine-turned mask with linear apertures for the days of the week, date, months, year (1906–1921)and moonphases, sector for the equation of time below. Blued steel spade hands for the hours and minutes, gilt alarm hand, equation of time hand with gold sun. 129 x 104 mm., matte gilt, arch-top, four pillars secured by screws, going barrels for both trains, perpendicular anchor escapement beneath a matte gilt platform for the cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, separate train for the alarm, the calendar work with going barrel to power the da
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
