175,500 CHF
“Au Vicomte de Rohan” Breguet, No. 2795. Sold on 11 June 1932. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with minute-repeating, perpetual calendar, phase and age of the moon, power reserve indication. Accompanied by a certificate. Four-body, polished, coin-edge band. Hinged gold cuvette. Gold, brushed chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions and outermost seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds concentric with the date, days of the week and the months, power reserve sector below 12, aperture for the moon phases, the moon’s age at the edge, engine turned center and border. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 43 mm., 19’’’, rhodium-plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, chronograph button in the crown. Dial signed, case and movement numbered. Diam. 51 mm. From “The Collection” Notes The present watch is made in the very best tradition of Breguet and is an unmistakable product of the Breguet Company. The dial takes its inspiration from the complicated watches made by Breguet in the first quarter of the 19th century. This watch includes the features of perpetual calendar, minute repeating, moon phases and power reserve indication all of which Breguet pioneered the use of in his watche
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
