51,750 CHF
Breguet et Fils, No. 4144, sold to Monsieur Divoff on April 15, 1833 for 3600 francs. Exceptionally fine 20K gold Garde-Temps jump-hour hand, half-quarter-repeating watch in Breguet box. Accompanied by a short gold chain, gold ratchet key and certificate. four-body, by Joly, "forme quatre baguettes", engine-turned, gold hinged cuvette. silver, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned center, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold Breguet hands. Notes Garde-Temps watches were made by Breguet to the highest possible standards. The price Monsieur Divoff paid for the watch clearly reflects this; an ordinary repeater could have been bought for slightly over 1000 francs.cs.This watch was exhibited in the “Exposition des montres anciennes Breguet” held in Paris in 1986-1987 for the 200th anniversary of the firm.Petr Andrianovitch Divoff d. December 2, 1850.Enrolled in the Preobrajenski regiment in 1787, he became Gentilhomme à la Cour in 1810. In 1822 he was made Chambellan and in 1824, Conseiller d'Etat. Divoff retired in 1825. He was a member of the aristocracy of Saint Petersburg and of Moscow. When he died, Divoff is recorded as having 266 serfs on the 5200 hectares he possessed in the Vologda.district.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
