108,100 CHF
“Montre Médaillon à Tact” Breguet No. 2292, “Montre a Médaillon”, sold on October 28, 1890 to Monsieur Labouchère of Amsterdam for 1,500 francs. Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set montre à tact with short gold chain and Breguet key, accompanied by a Breguet certificate and original morocco fitted box. By Tavernier, No. 2827. Three-body, “forme quatre baguettes”, both covers with translucent pale gray enamel over “sunburst” engine-turning, gold paillon borders, front with small aperture for the dial, back with gold arrow flush with the enamel, pointing to a small knob, band with the same enamel decorated with gold paillon laurel-leaf wreath, twelve pearl touch pieces, detachable cuvette with apertures for winding, setting, regulating and the dial, with two small secret signatures, pendant set with two half-pearls, loose ring, short gold chain with gold Breguet key. Silver, small, eccentric set in the front cover aperture, Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, engine turned center with “basket” pattern. Blued steel “Baton” hands. 34.7 mm, gilt brass, “souscription” caliber with central barrel and five-wheel train, ruby cylinder escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute on the top pivot. Signed on the cuvette, case numbered. Diam. 41 mm. Notes From Thomas Engel Collection The watch was chosen by the Maison Breguet to represent their achievements in the 1923 exhibition “Centenaire de A.L. Breguet”, in Paris’
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
