Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 338

Breguet et Fils No. 1651, petite pendule à quatre parties sold to Monsieur Doumère on 7 Thermidor year 12 (26 July 1804), for 1440 Francs. Fine and rare mahogany, eight day going, quarter repeating "Grande and Petite sonnerie" carnage clock with alarm and special escapement.

CHF 80,000 - 100,000

C.Rectangular with sliding back door, gilt brass bezel with "water-leaf" decoration. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Brass rectangular with double tooth barrel both on the going and the striking trains, platform mounted dead-beat verge escapement with jewelled pallets and 10 toothed escape wheel, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Quarter repeating and striking on a bell with the mechanisms mounted on the back plate, top button release. Pull wind alarm striking on the saine bell, fitted on the base. Signed on the dial and based of the movement. ln very gond condition with certificate dated 24 Septembre 1917. Dim. 18 x 13 x 10 cm.


LOADING IMAGES
Click to full view
Image

Notes

Provenance: A note on Breguet's headed note paper provides a list of the dates on which the dock was returned for attention: 11 January 1834 in the naine of Mr. Doumère 2 September 1840 " " " " Mrs. Béhic 14 November 1857 " 20 May 1861 " " " " Mr. Le Blanc, Attaché aux Messageries Maritimes Note: The escapement of this dock is a frictional fact quite distinct from, and should not be confused rest dead beat verge escapement as described by with, Breguet's "échappement naturel". George Daniels in The Art of B r e g u e t , p. 314, fig. 393. Although it is called an "échappement à An identical dock, No. 2020, is described by Charles levées naturelles" on Breguet's certificate, it is in Allix in Carnage Clocks, 1974, p. 40, pl. II/4 and II/5. 21 September 1917 " " " " Ct. Henri Pecqueur, Captain of the Cruiser "La Marseillais" in Toulon.