10,620 CHF
“Breguet Chronograph” Breguet, No 3780, movement by Louis Audemars, No. 12331, in 1874. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch with chronograph and register. Four-body, polished, the back cover engraved “Au Docteur Duchemin, Reconnaissance affectueuse, Cordoba 12 Février 1900, W. H. David”, the interior with engraved dedication. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds track concentric with fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary seconds dial at 6, 30-minute register at 12. Gold “spade” hands. 42 mm., 18’’’, frosted gilt, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph mechanism, co-axial button in the crown. Signed and numbered on the cuvette for Breguet, movement and case numbered by Louis Audemars. Diam. 52 mm. Property of an Swiss collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
