77,050 CHF
Leroy, rue Dauphine a Paris, No. 2407, circa 1789. Extremely fine and rare, 18K gold and silver, quarter repeating Peypetuelle self-winding watch. Three body with glazed back, silver reeded band and flat pendant, gold bezels, the back one engraved: Les laeures ;assent, le temps vecu reste. Silver engineturned, the letters of the signature in place of hour numerals and outer minute ring. Blued steel Breguet hands. The reverse scratched: L. R. 1787. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, the going barrel wounded by the sector-shaped platinum winding weight engraved by the signature, polished steel banking spring with frictional rollers, cylinder escapement, the plane brass three-arm balance with garnet end-stone sunk on the back plate, flat balance spring with regulator. Repeating on two large bluedsteel gongs by depressing the pendant. Signed on the dial, winding weight and back plate. Diam. 65 mm. Notes The large size of this watch, its glazed back and above all the engine-turned dial with the letters of the maker's name in place of the hour numerals suggest it was made as an exhibition piece. According to the date of 1787, scratched on the back of the clial, this watch was produced roughly a the same period Breguet was completing his first series of peopetuelles watches which assured his fame among the most important personalities of his time. This fact enlightens the importance of the recently discovered watch which embodies already so many features, today a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-10-31
