71,300 CHF
Altesse le Prince Belosselsky Breguet, No. 3795, delivered to Jousselin & Brasch for Prince Belosselsky on January 11, 1823 for 2,200 Francs. Very fine and rare 20K gold half-quarter repeating pocket watch with jump-hour-hand. Four-body, “forme quatre baguettes”, No. 3918 by master casemaker Tavernier, engine-turned, gold hinged cuvette. Silver, by Tavernier, champlevé Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds between III and IIII o’clock. Blued-steel Breguet hands. Notes Prince Belosselsky-Belozersky in the uniform of the Hussar Guard From the archives of Jacques Ferrand. Espere Alexandrovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky (1802-1846) Son of Prince Alexandre Mikhailovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky (Imperial Ambassador, “grand-échanson” of the Imperial Court, Senator, and member of the Academy of Sciences), and his wife Anna Gregorievna Kozitzky. Espere Alexandrovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky was an officer in the regiment of the Hussars of the Guard, and “aide-de-camp” of the Russian Emperor, General Major in the Emperor's suite, and head of the Administration of the police of the Nicolaievsky railroad. He married Helena Pavlovna Bibikoff (1812-1888), with whom he had five children. The watch was made to a very high standard; it is jeweled to the center, with repetition system developed by Breguet along the principles laid out by Stogden, and a jump hour mechanism for easy reading. Jousselin & Brasch were important merchants in Russia, with many aristocr
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
