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Geneva, Nov 08, 2026

LOT 353

BREGUET & FILS, FRANCE, "4ÈME GRANDEUR", JUMPING-HOUR QUARTER-REPEATING POCKET WATCH WITH SINGLE-GONG STRIKE, 18K YELLOW GOLD

CHF 18,000 - 36,000

HKD 172,000 - 344,000 / USD 21,900 - 43,700 / EUR 19,500 - 38,900 / JPY 3,460,000 - 6,910,000

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 63,000

A very fine and very rare, 18k gold, manual wind open-face pocket watch. Engine-turned case by master casemaker Tavernier, with polished bezel and border, reeded band and hinged gold cuvette. Case back engine-turned in a radial pattern, centred by an engine-turned rosette. Gold engine-turned dial with polished chapter ring, radial Roman numerals and outer minute track with dot markers; eccentric subsidiary seconds between 3 and 4 o’clock. Blued steel Breguet hands.

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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Breguet & Fils, France

Model "4ème grandeur"

Year Sold to Lord Lauderdale the 24 february 1807 for 2760 Francs

Movement No. 1913

Case No. 2535 by Tavernier

Caliber 39 mm., gilt brass bridge calibre, jewelled to the centre, with lateral counterpoised ruby lever escapement (later), cut-bimetallic compensation balance with flat balance spring. Breguet-type repeating work striking with a single hammer through an intermediary block on a single short rectangular gong, activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant.

Diameter 43 mm.

Weight 66 gr.

Signature Dial, case and movement

Accessories Accompanied by the original box, ratchet key and original Breguet gold chain.

Notes

James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839)

James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman, politician and intellectual whose career spanned the turbulent political and intellectual landscape of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.

In 1806, Lauderdale was appointed by the British government as a special envoy to Napoleon’s court in Paris, where he participated in unsuccessful negotiations aimed at ending the War of the Third Coalition. He conferred directly with Talleyrand and other French officials, but the mission ultimately failed, largely owing to Britain’s refusal to accept France’s growing dominance on the Continent. His experience in Paris left him deeply sceptical of Napoleon’s ambitions.