40,800 CHF
Grande and Petite Sonnerie Breguet, Paris, No. 2413. Made circa 1890. Fine and very rare, gilt brass, 8-day going, grande and petite sonnerie striking carriage clock with quarter repeat and alarm. Accompanied by the very fine, original gold tooled red morocco leather fitted Breguet box and numbered key. Silver with champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, subsidiary alarm setting dial below, engineturned center, gilt brass engine-turned dial plate. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rectangular, 85 x 60 mm, gilt brass, spring barrels for the going and striking trains, lateral lever escapement set on a platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters with two hammers on two gongs, repeating activated by depressing the push-piece at the top of the case, separate alarm train with its own hammer. Dial and movement signed and numbered. Dim. Height 14 cm (without handle) width 9 cm, depth 7.7 cm. Notes The case and outer fitted box of this fine grande and petite sonnerie carriage clock is made in the manner of the carriage clocks made during Breguet’s lifetime and is therefore particularly handsome in appearance.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
