41,400 CHF
Breguet No. 1638, sold to Mr. Casavalencia for the Prince of Prussia, on 14 February 1814, for 2200 Francs. Fine and certainly unique 18K gold watch, with Military counter pour regler le pas des troupes, dual calendar, subsidiary seconds and thermometer, with special escapement. Later four body, "forme quatre baguettes " , engineturned with reeded band, Gold cuvette. White enamel with Turkish numerals, outer military counter ring with 76 divisions, subsidiary dial for date and the running seconds with outer ring for days of the week, sector for the thermometer. Gold Breguet hands and counterpoised blued-steel centre-seconds. 23 -, gilt brass, bar calibre with going-barrel, echappement naturel, bimetallic three-arm compensation balance with pare-chute suspension on both pivots, balance spring with terminal curve. Visible typical Breguet dead seconds type mechanism with bolt in the band. Signed on the dial, cuvette and movement. Diam. 60 mm. Notes History: This watch was bought by Mr. Casa-Valencia for the account of the King of Prussia. For biography, see lot 29. As opposed to watches with regular dead independent seconds mechanism, as invented by Moise Pouzait, with independent train and flirt on the escape wheel pinion, the watches with secondes d'un coup, were invented by Breguet to avoid the subsidiary tr ain of wheels. In this watch, the secondes d 'un coup mechanism, was specially devised to beat 76 times a minute, instead of 60, in order to be used to punctuat Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-10-18
