94,400 CHF
“Pendule à trois roues “ Breguet et Fils, No. 1500, number 1 of a series of 10 made by the workshop of the Musée International d’Horlogerie of La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1986, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the invention of Breguet’s three-wheel clock. Exceptional and elegant marble and gilt brass eight day going weight-driven three-wheel skeleton table regulator with equation of time, Republican and Gregorian annual calendars and thermometer. Accompanied by glass dome. Black marble rectangular base with canted corners, applied with gilt brass initial “B”, gilt brass frame, the front bar engraved with the days of the week, back bar with spring-loaded bracket securing pendulum when moving the clock, gilt brass bun feet. Revolving large center silvered brass ring divided 2 times for 12 hours, with Arabic hour numerals, outer two-minute divisions with 10 minute Arabic markers, mean time indicated by a blued steel pointer at 9 o’clock, solar time indicated by gilt “sun” pointer, small 10-minute silver sector on the front bar with 3-arm pointers for minute indications, seconds indicated by a silver ring attached directly to the escape wheel. Below annual calendar ring engraved on the outside for the Gregorian calendar and inside for the Republican calendar. Date indicator by a cord for the plumb bob. The days of the week are indicated by the upper edge of the weights against the day names on the front bar. Celsius silver thermometer sector mounted on the suspension bar
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
