59,000 CHF
"Motoring & Aviation Interest - Minute Repeater & Split-Seconds Chronograph" Breguet, No. 2646. Sold to De Dion Bouton for presentation to Lucien Rougerie in 1916. Very fine and historically interesting, minute-repeating, 18K gold keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register. Given by the De Dion Bouton Company in recognition of the help of Lucien Rougerie in developing a 130 horse-power engine for aviation use. Accompanied by a certificate. Four-body, "bassine", polished, No. 13257, the back cover with an engraved monogram, the interior with engraved inscription. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost fifths of a second chronograph divisions with five-minute/seconds red Arabic numerals, 30-minute register at 12, subsidiary sunk seconds at 6. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes The inscription in the back of the case reads: "Souvenir de la Société de Dion Bouton a Monsieur Lucien Rougerie pour sa collaboration à la mise au point sur Avion des moteurs 130 HP - 1916" Lucien Rougerie Was born on December 5, 1885 in Limoges, where his father, Pierre Rougerie, had a furniture factory. The young Lucien was calm and reserved, and was a good student at the Limoges high school. Afterwards he trained as a cabinetmaker and began working in his father’s firm. His father entrusted him with the maintenance and improvement of the machines in the workshop. Like many of the early pioneers in aviation, Rougerie was inte
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
