Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 15

"Aux Frères Chaudoir" Breguet, No. 1196, sold to the Frères Chaudoir on 9 Frimaire, An 12 (December 1, 1804) for 1,600 francs. Extremely fine and very rare, "répétition à ponts", 18K gold pocket watch with jump hours, quarter repeating à toc and ruby cylinder escapement.

C. Four-body, "Empire", No. 321, by Amy Gros (master mark), engine-turned with polished bezel and border, reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Silver, engine-turned, brushed chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer minute chapter with dot indexes, eccentric subsidiary seconds between 3 and 4 o'clock. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. 49 mm., 22''', gilt, standing barrel, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance with parachute on the top pivot, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator with bimetallic temperature compensation curb, all-or-nothing repeating with a single hammer on a block on the case activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.