195,500 HKD
Breguet No. 2170, sold to Monsieur Louis Dollfuson April 30, 1929, for 6500 Francs.Fine and almost certainly unique 18K gold keyless watch with split-seconds chronograph, tachometer and instantaneous 60 minutes recorder, in original fitted box. Three-body, massive, “bassine”, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, small central hour ring with Breguet numerals, subsidiary small rings for subsidiary seconds and minutes register. The speed tachometer scale calibrated on a red spiral with concentric outer chronograph ring. Blued steel “spade” hands. 19’’’, rhodium plated, ebauche by Mathey Tissot, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Visible split-seconds chronograph workwith push-pieces in the band and winding crown.Signed on the dial and cuvette.Diam. 52 mm. Notes This watch was almost certainly specially designed for Louis Dollfus who, together with L. H. Dulles, was among the best clients of Breguet in the 1920’s. One of the most wealthy wine-grower of Algeria where he lived in the area of Tlemcen, Louis Dollfus was among the first to have a pilot’s licence, and was the owner of the first private hydroplane in Algeria. The chapter-ring of this watch, being reduced in size, allows the red tachometer scale to be enlarged so that it can be read at a glanceand accurately during the flight.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-06-05
