39,100 CHF
Timekeeper with3 Complications"Breguet" Swiss, No. 70549,circa 1800.Fine and very rare 18K gold, large, double-train grande et petite sonnerie clockwatch with early minute-repeating. Four-body, the back cover finely engraved with an urn surrounded by flowers, below a ribbon with the word "Souvenir", the border chased and engraved with repeated foliate pattern, the band with polished ogival cartouches separated by flinqué, polished stepped bezels, gilt hinged cuvette engraved with technical details. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel Breguet hands. 55 mm, gilt, fixed barrel with small brackets for the train arbors, cylinder escapement withbrass escape wheel, three-arm gold balance with flat balance spring, striking and repeating trains under small plate set in the lower part formed to leave room for a standing Lepine type barrel and bell, going and striking trains with Breguet continuous stop work, repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant, two levers protruding below the cuvette, one for changing from petite to grande sonnerie, the other for striking/silent.Signed on the dial and cuvette.Diam. 62 mm. Notes An excellent example of the best Swiss work at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The case is superbly made, the movement, exceptional for the period, was executed when minute-repeating work was far from common and required exquisite workmanship in order to make it work correctly. This was 60 years
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
