Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...

Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005

LOT 67

Breguet, No. 2678. Made in Geneva for the Islamic market, circa 1820. Very fine and rare, quarter repeating, Etablissement Mixte, 18K gold pocket watch.

CHF 30,000 - 40,000

EUR 20,000 - 25,000 / USD 23,000 - 30,000

C. Four-body, ?Empire?, polished bezel, engine-turned band, hinged back decorated with a pattern of concentric engine-turned circles. Gilt metal hinged cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Islamic numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel hands. M. 51 mm., frosted gilt, standing barrel, 8 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute, index regulator with bimetallic compensation curb, repeating on square section gongs activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant. Cuvette signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-7

Good

Oxidized
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-14-01

Good

Damaged

HANDS Original

Notes

The present watch is one of those made by Breguet in Switzerland after 1814, when Geneva had become part of the Swiss Confederation. It was almost certainly made in collaboration with Decombaz, the best Genevan watchmaker at the time, who often worked with Breguet, especially for self-winding and grande sonnerie watches. The case bears Geneva marks and also French hallmarks of the period.