1,353,000 CHF
"Au Prince Serge Galitzine" The Only Known Surviving Silver Breguet Carriage Clock Breguet, No. 3358, sold to Prince Serge Galitzine on March 31, 1826, for 3,600 Francs. Extremely fine and highly important, probably unique, small, silver, eight-day "Pendule a Almanach" carriage clock built on the principles of the "Garde Temps", with jeweled lever escapement, half-quarter repeating, alarm and day and date calendar. Accompanied by the very fine, original gold tooled red morocco leather fitted box, later silver mechanical key and a Breguet certificate. Silver with champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, inner dot alarm divisions, subsidiary seconds at 12, engine-turned center, gilt brass engine-turned plate with winding aperture and to the right, alarm setting in a gold cartouche, annular silver chapter rings for the day and date, silver plaque engraved with the number. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rectangular, 85 x 60 mm, gilt brass, going barrel, 5-wheel train, straight-line calibrated and counterpoised lever escapement set on a platform, pallet fork with jeweled pallets, roller with arrow-shaped impulse pin, cut bimetallic 2-arm compensation balance with temperature and timing adjustment screws, parachute on the top pivot, jeweled balance and escape wheel, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, Breguet all-or-nothing type repeating system repeating by a single hammer on a bell activated by depressing the push-piece at the top of the
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
