Only Online Auction
Geneva, Jan 03, 2022
LOT 29
BREGUET MADE BY LALLEMAND
CHF 20,000 - 40,000
EUR 19,200 - 38,300 / USD 21,700 - 43,300 / HKD 170,000 - 338,000
Large pocket watch, half quarter-repeater with special striking train, Robin detent lever escapement; 18K yellow gold and enamel. Yellow gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, large pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 4, special escapement and one horological complication: Half quarter-repeater à toc by one large hammer for the hours (dumb) and on one steel gong by a second small hammer for the half qua rters (activated by depressing the pendant) Three-piece case “Empire” with blue champlevé enamel decoration showing two classical profile busts, allegories of the Sun and the Moon, a winged hourglass between, gold star and crescent moon border; fluted case-band. Gold guilloché (engine-turned) dial with radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, outer dot minute markers, eccentric subsidiary seconds dial at 4 o’clock; blued steel Breguet hands with skeletonized tip.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Breguet à Paris, France
Model Made by Lallemand, Paris
Year Circa 1810
Case No. 2223 (by Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier, Paris)
Material 18K yellow gold with enamel
Diameter 58 mm.
Caliber 23''', Robin detent lever escapement, gilded brass, skeletonised and partly engraved bridges, free-standing going barrel, Robin detent lever escapement with a roller engaging the fork of the lever (gilded brass wheel), monometallic balance with three arms (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring, index regulator with temperature compensating bimetallic curb
Signature Dial and Cuvette (dome) by Breguet; Movement by Lallemand
CONDITIONS AND INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
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