122,500 CHF
BREGUET - A MONSIEUR LE COMTE VLADIMIR KOMAR CARRIAGE CLOCK NO. 5017 Breguet, No. 5017, made between 1831 and 1832, sold on 11 June 1853, for the sum of 4000 Francs. Exceptional and extremely rare, large, gilt bronze carriage clock with grande and petite sonnerie striking, quarter-repeating, pull-wind alarm and calendar. Accompanied by the original gold-tooled red morocco leather fitted travelling box, original Breguet key and a certificate. Multi-piece, gilded bronze, cast and engine-turned, with Corinthian pilasters, glazed sides, back and front doors, oval glazed aperture on the top to view the escapement, four ball fi nials, scroll handle with ball supports, foliate pierced base for sound transmission, chased bun feet. White enamel, by Droz, with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, days of the months and alarm setting, gilded dial mask fi nely engraved with scrolling foliage. Rectangular brass, signed at the base: "Breguet neveu & Compagnie, no. 5017”, with a large single double-ended going barrel driving the going and striking trains, horizontal gilded platform with lateral lever escapement, three-arm bimetallic compensation balance with temperature adjustment screws, with parachute on the top pivot, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking and quarter-repeating work visible on the back plate, the bells mounted within the base, pull-wind alarm and repeating buttons on the top of the case, petite/grande so
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-03-11
