237,250 CHF
"Lord Gower" Breguet, Paris, No. 3816, sold to Lord Gower, February 4, 1826, for the sum of 2875 Francs. Very fine and very rare small gilt bronze travelling clock with quarter repeating and alarm. Accompanied by a Breguet Certificate. Silver, with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions and inner dot alarm divisions, engineturned centre, engine turned gilt mask with applied silvered plaque "N 3816", winding and alarm setting holes.Blued steel alarm hand and blued steel Breguet hour and minute hands. rectangular 85 x 60 mm, brass, largesingle spring barrel, platform escapement with straight line counterpoised long lever escapement, cut bimetallictwo-arm compensation balance, outer lamina with temperature screws, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, 16-tooth brass escape wheel, pallet fork with double roller and arrowhead-shaped gold guard pin, entire escapementjeweled, parachute on the top pivot, index regulator, pump-wound quarter repeating on a bell, the plunger on topof the case, pull-wind alarm with pull cord symetrically opposite the repeat plunger.Dial signed.Dim. 123 x 86 x 64 mm. Notes George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758 - 1833). Infamous reformer. Leveson-Gower was the son of a noted English family and succeeded his father as Marquess of Stafford in 1803. He had married Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in 1785. He served as British Ambassador to France and was in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. Leveson-Gower a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-05-15
