501,800 CHF
“Perpétuelle à Répétition, Echappement Libre” Breguet, No. 15, sold circa 1793. Extremely fine and very important, 18K gold “perpétuelle” self-winding garde-temps pocket watch with double barrels, lever escapement, quarter repeating à toc and 60-hour power reserve indication. Two-body, “perpétuelle” type, No. 1120, by Amy Gros (master mark), polished, concealed hinge. White enamel by F. Cave, Breguet numerals, outer star minute indexes and lozenge quarter-hour indexes, subsidiary seconds, powerreserve sector between 9 and 12, mounted to a gilt brass ring. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 47 mm. (21’’’), gilt brass 3/4 plate, two going barrels, tandem winding with brass wolf-tooth winding gears, four-wheel train, straight-line lever escapement, four-arm jeweled and capped bimetallic compensation balance with a threaded pin at the free ends for platinum temperature nuts, two platinum mean time screws, blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, single roller table with inserted jewel working between two upright steel pins mounted at the end of the fork, long fork with banking over the escape wheel pinion, parachute on top pivot, micrometric screw regulator, half-ogival platinum weight swinging between two spring-loaded rollers mounted in the case with a stop mechanism triggered when fully wound, repeating with a single hammer on a short gold block in the case activated by depressing the pendant. Dial and dial plate signed. Diam 54 mm. Notes This watch was in the
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
