Important Watches, Wristwatches and c...
Geneva, Apr 20, 1996
LOT 473
Breguet a Paris, Swiss, circa 1810. Fine and unusual silver stop-watch with retrograde seconds.
CHF 1,300 - 1,600
C. Double body, "forme quatre baguettes", polished. D. White enamel with small eccentric Arabic chapter and blue semi-circular sector for the retrograde seconds with gilt divisions (slightly chipped on border of the winding hole). Gilt brass "sun"hands. M. Hinged gilt brass with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain gilt brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass continental cock with polished steel end-piece. Stop lever in the dial palte. Signed on the dial and back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
