$7,080
Breguet, No 3713, movement by Louis Audemars, No. 11714. Sold to madam De Barros on the 14Th of January 1890 for 1550 francs. Very fine and rare, 18K gold, hunting-cased, keyless quarter repeating fob watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished covers and band, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold "spade" hands. 26 mm, 12’’’, frosted gilt, 29 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, Audemars keyless winding, wolf-tooth winding wheels, pin-set, repeating on gongs via activating slide in the band. Signed and numbered on the cuvette for Breguet, movement and case numbered by Louis Audemars. Diam. 33 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-06-14
