195,750 CHF
RECENTLY DISCOVERED IMPORTANT BREGUET JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER SOLD TO THE INFANTE OF SPAIN IN 1818 Breguet, No. 3104, "Montre Or à Répétition à Minutes". Sold to Son Altesse L'Infant d'Espagne, Comte de la Moratalla par de Matschado, on April 21st, 1818, for the sum of 2,980 Francs. Very fine and extremely rare, large, minute-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with jump-hours and Breguet's intermediary hammer repeating. Four-body, forme quattre baguettes, No. 3566 by Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier, engine-turned "grains d'orge". Hinged gold cuvette. Silver, two-piece, by Tavernier, radial champlevé Roman numerals on a brushed chapter ring, outer minute divisions, outermost Arabic 10-minute numerals in square reserves within an engine-turned border, matte engine- turned center, applied offset large subsidiary seconds ring at 8 fixed by two blued steel screws from the back, secret signatures each side of the XII numeral, secured by a single screw. Blued steel Breguet hands. 22''', gilded brass, full plate, going barrel with separate bridge secured by two blued steel screws, jeweled train, visible inverted cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, three-arm brass balance mounted on the dial plate, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute suspension on the top pivot, index regulator with bimetallic compensation curb controlled via a blued steel index on the back plate with engraved scale, exposed spring for the repeating on two gongs with two hammers, each with in
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-11-08
