636,000 HKD
Breguet, No. 5038, Très petite, simple excentrique pour bracelet, sold to Monsieur le Comte A. Demidoffon October 13, 1832, for 4200 Francs.Rare and important, very slim, 18K gold early keyless miniature watch, construite sur le principe des garde-temps; one of only 16 examples. Suspended from a later gold bar brooch, in a Desouter red morocco fitted box. Three-piece, “quatre baguettes”, engine-turnedà grains d’orge. Gold engine-turned, eccentric chapter ring with Roman numerals. Gold Breguet hands. 7’’’ (16 mm.), gilt brass with all steel bridges, bar calibre, 18 jewels, keyless winding and hand-setting, five wheel train, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, two-arm blued steel and platinum balance with elastic suspension on both pivots, flat balance spring with index regulator.Signed on the dial, numbered on the front plate.Accompanied by Certificate No. 4131, delivered by Breguet on January 6, 1998.Diam. 18 mm.Thickness 4 mm.Total weight: 6.23 grams.Weight of movement 1,8 grams. Notes Louis Desoutter, Breguet’s agent in London, 4 Hanover Street, London W1.According to the certificate, the watch was originally delivered with a bangle (now lacking), made by the jeweller Fossin (successor of Nitot and predecessor of Chaumet). It was bought back by Breguet in 1836 and resold under No. 232 on October 1837, to Comte de Toréno for 3000 Francs.Previously in the collection of Sir David Lionel Salomons,this watch is described in his book: Breguet (1747-1823), 1923,pp.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-06-05
