Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 446

Giteau, Elève de Breguet, Palais Royal, No. 140, Paris, No. 557, circa 1820. Fine 18 ct. gold, quarter repeating watch with dead independent seconds.

C. Four body, Empire, with reeded band and bezels, engine-turned back.Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. Silver engine-turned with Roman numerals on a polished chapter. Blued steel Breguet hands and counterpoised seconds hand. M. GiIt brass, double train with free standing barrels, cylinder escapement with plain brass three armed balance, flat balance spring and ruby endstone. Repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant. Dead independent seconds mechanism of Pouzait type, with boit in the band.Signed on the cuvette. In good condition. Diam. 56 mm.