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Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 362

?Montre Médaillon à Tact? Breguet No. 2732, sold to Louvrazoff on September 9, 1815, for 1700 Francs. Fine 18K gold, enamel and pearl-set montre médaillon à tact.

CHF 70,000 - 90,000

108 45,000 - 58,000

Sold: CHF 82,600

C. Three-body, ?forme collier?, No. B2732, both covers overlaid with translucent royal blue enamel, the front cover with eccentric ellipse pattern engine-turning, finely reeded bezel edges, revolving back cover with sunburst effect engine-turning, arrow à tact hand, cream enamel and gold paillon decorated band set with 11 pearl touch pieces, the elongated pearl-set pendant with loose bow forming the 12th. Detachable gold cuvette engraved ?Breguet N. 2732?, with apertures for the dial, winding, hand setting and the regulator. D. Silver, small, eccentric, mounted on the barrel bridge, radial Roman numerals and outer dot minute markers, engine turned center. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 33 mm., 14???, gilt brass ?souscription? caliber with center barrel wound only from the front, five-wheel 45-hour going train, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, threearm gold balance with pare-chute on the top pivot, flat blued-steel balance spring, blued steel regulation arm. Movement and cuvette signed and numbered, case numbered. Diam. 40 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-54

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-05

Good

HANDS Luminous material reapplied

Notes

Provenance: Sir David Salomons; Madame Henry Brown. The present watch was No. 104 in the collection of Sir David Salomons. It was lent by Madame Henry Brown, the wife of the then owner of the House of Breguet, for the exhibition in Paris, at the Palais Galliera in October 1923, on the centenary of the death of Abraham Louis Breguet, Cat. No. 28. Breguet classified his souscription watches as ?petite?, ?moyenne? and ?grande?. Of about 915 ?souscription? type watches that Breguet made, only about 35 ?petites? are known to exist. They were the most expensive, averaging about SF 1,700. Breguet introduced them in the spring of 1799, the first one being sold to Madame Betancourt, the wife of his most trusted friend.