Sold for:
106,200 CHF
106,200 CHF
"Aux Frères Chaudoir" Breguet, No. 1196, sold to the Frères Chaudoir on 9 Frimaire, An 12 (December 1, 1804) for 1,600 francs. Extremely fine and very rare, "répétition à ponts", 18K gold pocket watch with jump hours, quarter repeating à toc and ruby cylinder escapement. Four-body, "Empire", No. 321, by Amy Gros (master mark), engine-turned with polished bezel and border, reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. Notes Chaudoir brothers The Chaudoir brothers were well-known merchants in Warsaw who became Breguet’s Polish agents in that city. Emmanuel Breguet, “Breguet, Horloger depuis 1775”, Alain de Gourcuff Editeur, 1997, pp. 79, 220.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
