The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 72

Breguet, No. 115, sold to Madame la Maréchale de Lauriston on 30 April 1840.Fine and rare 18 ct. gold pendant watch.

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

USD 6,000 - 9,000

Sold: CHF 10,925

C. Three-body, 'forme quatre baguettes', No. 536 by Leopold Secheret, engine-turned back, with winding and setting apertures, engine-turned band with a provision for regulation at 10 o'clock, wound and set from the back with a male key. D. Silver, matted, engraved with a neo-Gothic rosette in the centre, champlevé Roman chapters, outer minute dot divisions. Gold Breguet hands. M. 26.3 mm o, early brass bar calibre, 8 jewels, cylinder escapement, steel escape wheel, unusual three-arm uncut superiposed bimetallic platinum and steel balance, blued-steel balance spring, pare-chute shock protection on the top pivot.Signed and numbered on the dial, renumbered inside the back cover, stamped with casemaker's mark and French 18 ct. gold mark.Diam. 30 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 212-213.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3 - 15
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4 - 15 - 01

Notes

The watch employs a very unusual, apparently experimental balance: the top part is made of steel and is fused to the platinum bottom. Apparently, Breguet conceived a new type of bimetallic compensation and implemented it with this watch.Leopold Secheret, casemaker, entered his mark in Paris in May 1834. He was the casemaker Breguet Neveu most used.Madame la Maréchale de Lauriston was the wife of Jacques Law, Marquis de LAURISTON (1768 - 1828), Aide de camp to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 and 1805, Ambassador to Russia in 1811, and nominated Maréchal de France by Louis XVIII. He participated in the 1823 Spanish expedition.Breguet Abraham LouisFor a biography, see page 229.