100,300 CHF
“A Monsieur Hainguerlot” Breguet, No. 1362, sold to Monsieur Hainguerlot on 25 Fructidor, An 12 (September 12, 1804), for 1,600 Francs. Very fine and extremely rare, large, 18K gold “Souscription Moyenne à tact” pocket watch with ruby cylinder escapement, short gold chain, key and Breguet fitted box. Accompanied by a certificate. Three-body, "forme quatre baguettes", by Tavernier, No. 2262, front cover with "sunburst" engine-turning and twelve touch pieces on the edge, “sunburst” engine-turned back with silver arrow, coin-edge band, loose ring pendant. Detachable polished cuvette with apertures for winding, hand setting, regulating and the dial. White enamel, small, eccentric set in the cuvette aperture, radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions. Blued steel “spade” hands. Notes A very similar watch is illustrated in “The Art of Breguet”, George Daniels, 1974, p. 189, fig. 160a-c. The Hainguerlot Family owned of the chateau of Villandry near Tours. The Hainguerlots became the owners of the Compagnie des canaux, that owned the rights to the Canal de l’Ourcq and the Canal Saint Denis.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
