119,000 CHF
No. 2577, construite par Louis Berthoud, Horloger de la Marine.Montre demi-marine, répétition ordinaire, échappement de Monsieur Raymond, Emboitagede Monsieur Béliard. Finie en blanc en Pluviôse et Ventôse an XIII (Février - Mars 1805). Le 15 Germinal an XIII (15 Avril 1805) fait marcher avant la dorure pour être emportée à Paris et dorée. Fait refaire l'échappement en Juin 1808. Sold on October 28, 1809 to Monsieur de Bougainville pour Monsieur son fils.Extremely fine and unique 18K gold quarter repeating pocket chronometer, gimballed in original mahogany box. White enamel by Lucard (signed on the enamel backing) with Breguet numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued-steel Breguet hands. Frosted and gilt full plate with brass cylindrical pillars secured by pins, fusee with chain, maintaining power, typical Louis Berthoud type pivoted detent escapement with three-arm compensation balance and free sprung cylindrical balance spring.Signed on the dial, dial plate and back plate.Diam. 61 mm. Notes Among the last watches made between 1808 and 1812, some were only quarter repeaters made for civil use with duplex escapement or lever escapement without temperature compensation. Others by contrast were true timekeepers showing all the essential characteristics of pocket marine timekeepers. It is so with No. 2587, from the Gelis Collection, in Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, and above all with No. 2577, delivered gimballed in a box like the majority of the most carefully made portable
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-10-23
