Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, May 10, 2020
LOT 101
Breguet - Pocket watch with quarter-repeater; 18K yellow gold
HKD 19,500 - 23,400
USD 2,500 - 3,000 / EUR 2,300 - 2,800 / CHF 2,500 - 3,000
18K yellow gold, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with one horological complication: • Quarter-repeater on two steel square gongs (activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant). Silver guilloché (engine-turned) dial; blued steel “Breguet” hands. Case-back guilloché (engine-turned). Movement, 21’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (probably in gold) and blued steel flat hairspring, index regulator with temperature compensating double bimetallic curb (compensateur double) and pare-chute.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-11 |
Good Slightly worn |
Movement: 3 * |
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Dial: 3-6-9-01 |
Good Slightly oxidized Scratched HANDS Original |
Brand Breguet, probably Geneva
Model (apocryphal signature)
Year circa 1820-1830
Movement No. 1 764
Case No. 7 958 (by “G G / C”, probably Geneva)
Material 18K yellow gold
Diameter 53.3 mm.
Caliber 21’’’, cylinder escapement
Signature cuvette (dome)
Notes
Very fine example of a probably Genevan watch, bearing the apocryphal signature of the most famous Parisian watchmaker of the time.