10,030 CHF
“Repassée par Breguet” Swiss, No. 1189. Made in the style of Breguet, circa 1810. Fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with cylinder escapement. To be sold without reserve Four-body, “Empire”, master mark “IE”, polished, engine-turned band. Gilt-metal cuvette. Silver, polished chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute indexes, engine-turned center, eccentric applied annular subsidiary seconds dial between 3 and 4 o’clock. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 47 mm., 21’’’, gilt, standing barrel, steel cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance, pare-chute on the top pivot, the escapement jeweled, flat blued steel balance spring, bimetallic temperature compensation curb on the index regulator, all-or-nothing repeating with a single hammer on a square-section gong activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant. Cuvette signed Repee par Breguet, case punched with master mark “IE”. Diam. 53 mm. Notes This very interesting watch is almost identical to a third series Breguet quarter-repeating watch of about 1810. The maker of this watch was highly skilled and very familiar with Breguet watches, the fact that it was finished by Breguet and the cuvette inscribed as such shows that the watch was of high enough quality to attract Breguet’s interest. It is known that in order to fill the growing demand for his watches, Breguet purchased fine watches made by others, finished them to his requirements, and sold them at a lower price than watches enti
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
