146,500 CHF
Breguet, No. 4768 sold to Princess Bagration for 3,500 francs on October 26, 1837.Very fine and extremely rare, gilt bronze, eight day going carriage clock with half-quarter repeater, alarm, subsidiary seconds, and calendar with date and months. Accompanied by certificate. rectangular, brass, platform escapement with straight line counterpoised long lever escapement, cut bimetallic two-arm compensation balance with silver alloy outer lamina with temperature screws and mean time nuts, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, 20-tooth brass escape wheel with oil-retention holes, pallet fork with double roller and arrowhead-shaped gold guard pin, entire escapement jeweled, pare-chute on the top pivot, adjustable regulator pins, repeating and alarm on bell.Signed on dial.Dim. Height 17 cm, width 9 cm, depth 7 cm. Notes There are only three other similar carriage clocks by Breguet known to date.The carriage clock, as we know it today, was designed and invented by Breguet about 1795. In 1798 he sold his first to Napoleon Bonaparte (No. 178, sold by Antiquorum on April 14, 1991, lot No. 10). The next client to purchase a carriage clock was the Duke de Praslin, who in 1802 bought one with the serial No. 1992. An examination of Breguet's early carriage clocks demonstrates the degree to which he was ahead of his time. The carriage clocks of the late 19th century and even the 20th century difer very little from those of Breguet. Indeed, although the basic movements are strikingly simi Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
