146,750 CHF
“Monsieur Charles de Wendel” Breguet, No. 2426, 12 rue de la Paix, Paris, completed in July 1898, sold to Mr. Charles de Wendel on June 10, 1905, for 3000 Francs. Very fine and very rare, silver "hump-back", eight-day going, Grande and Petite Sonnerie striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm, original silver-mounted key and the original Breguet gold-tooled red morocco traveling case. Three-body, “hump-back”, polished with hinged bezel and back door. Four bun-feet and silver chain handle. Silver with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, concentric inner alarm setting ring with gold hand, engineturned center. Blued steel "spade" hands. Gilt brass engine-turned dial plate with signature and number plaques. "Hump-back", 13 x 10.5 cm., full plate, cylindrical pillars, two barrels for going and striking trains and barrel for the alarm, platform with straight line "moustache" lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, quarter-repeating and striking on two gongs, Grande and Petite Sonnerie/Silent selection lever on the backplate, repeating button on the top. Dial signed. Dim. Height 15,5 cm., width 12 cm. Notes Top quality carriage clocks were amongst the most expensive pieces produced by Breguet. Breguet, the inventor of the carriage clock, did not make very many. Only about 200 carriage clocks are mentioned in the registers recording the entire Breguet production, beginning in the 1
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
