51,250 CHF
BREGUET NO. 2800 - SOLD TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON `THE PRINCE OF WATERLOO` Breguet, No. 2800, `Montre Médaillon Simple Excentrique`, sold to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on February 19th, 1816 for 2500 Francs, repurchased via Hawley on January 18th, 1823 for 1700 Francs and sold to the Comte d'Archinto on October 9th, 1823 for 5000 Francs. Extremely fine and important, small gold and enamel pocket watch with calendar and detachable hunting-case built along the principles of the Garde Temps. Accompanied by original gold chain and original male gold key. Detachable two-body outer case by master casemaker Pierre Benjamin Tavernier, engine- turned 'grains d'orge', releasing the watch by a button in the band. Inner : three-body, "forme collier", by Tavernier, No. 3397, polished bezels, engine-turned flat band with key arbour for hand-setting and corrector for the date, the back overlaid with translucent oyster enamel over sunray engine-turning, winding aperture. Silver, engine-turned, champlevé radial Roman numerals on a brushed eccentric chapter ring, outer minute dot divisions, engine-turned and matted background, date aperture at 12 o'clock with gold disc, regulation aperture set symmetrically at 2 o'clock. Gold Breguet hands. 29.3 mm.(13'''), gilt brass barrel with "arbre percé" (square opening for winding), jeweled to the 3rd wheel, straight line calibrated lever escapement with divided lift with 10-tooth brass escape wheel with oil-retention hole
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
