70,800 HKD
"Perpetuelle" Faite par Dussault, Passage Choiseul 15, à Paris, No. 624. Made circa 1850. Fine and very unusual, 18K gold, self-winding “perpetuelle-type” pocket watch. Three-body, "forme quatre baguettes" with engine-turned flat band and polished back. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Gold Breguet hands. Notes Self-winding watches from this period, constructed with a bar caliber movement are extremely rare. This example is particularly interesting by virtue of the original layout of the bridges, allowing the platinum weight to oscillate on the side of the movement between two steel banking springs, an idea to reduce the thickness of the watch. The arm of the weight has a semicircular kink to act as a shock absorber. A similar arrangement was adopted by Breguet for the small series of self winding pocket watches, sold as a set with a minute repeating astronomical wristwatch in 1991 (see lot 26).
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-25
