152,500 CHF
“Half-Ten-Minute Repeater – Republican Calendar” Breguet, No. 112, sold circa 1792. Very fine, rare and important, first-series, half-ten-minute repeating a toc, 18K gold pocket watch with Republican calendar and early “English” type ruby cylinder escapement. Two-body, “early-type”, polished, concealed hinge. White enamel by Morimont, Breguet numerals, outer star minute indexes and fleur-de-lys five minute indexes, the lower half of the dial with subsidiary seconds and dial for the Republican calendar. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 47 mm., 21’’’, gilt three-quarter plate, cut-away for the going barrel and for the repeat spring, ruby cylinder escapement, uncompensated three-arm brass balance mounted on the dial-plate, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator with lever in the side of the dial plate, slides for stopping the balance wheel and regulating the repeat speed in the side of the dial plate, repeating with a single hammer on the case activated by depressing the pendant. Dial and dial plate signed. Diam. 53.5 mm. Notes The present watch is one of the very few watches to survive from the first period (before 1794) after the founding of Breguet’s new business in 1787 and the only one known to survive with English type cylinder escapement. Repeating watches from this period are the first recognisably designed by Breguet to suit his own requirements. The first eighteen were entered in the registers in 1791 and most were finished by 1792. The repeating work is Br
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
