32,200 CHF
A Monsieur le Baron Hottinguer Watch No. 702, sold on 21 Pluviose an (10 February 1801), for the sum of 864 Francs, and collected by one of his employees. Gold "simple" watch, new calibre. Notes History: According to the repair records, the watch was returned for overhaul on 1 June 1839, at the request of a Mme. D'Escherny. Note: The size and case style of this watch are very similar to the souscription. The movement is however a fine example of the caliber named by Breguet himself as montre simple, nouveau calibre and designated as the final development for his watches made without striking or repeating; usually they were constructed in a smaller size. Jean-Conrad BARON HOTTINGUER (1764 - 1841) Jean-Conrad Hottinger, banker and friend of Abraham Louis Breguet, originally from Zurich, Switzerland. He began his career in Paris as a teller with Lecouteleux, well before the revolution, opening his own banking business in 1786, and the first Insurance Company in France in 1787. Wisely returning to Switzerland under the terror, he passed some time in London where he married the daughter of the wealthy Redwood family, planters from New England. After some years in America, during which he met Prince Talleyrand, amongst the most famous men of the whole Revolutionary era, he returned to Paris in 1796, and announced the re-establishment of a new banking house under the old title: " Hottinger et Cie.", in May 1798. Expansion of the business was rapid, with a bank opening in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1991-04-14
