Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 73
Breguet & Fils, No. 4877, sold to M. Jomars on 20 April 1832, for 1500 Francs.
CHF 7,000 - 8,000
Sold: CHF 7,475
Interesting pocket chronometer. Later specially made silver case. Engraved silver dial with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. GiIt brass 21? full plate movement, relieved for the barrel and signed Breguet & Fils No. 4877, fusee with maintaining power, spring detent escapement, two armed bimetallic compensation balance with poising and timing screws, diamond end-stone, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves. Diam. 58 mm.
Notes
This watch is a good example of the final development of
the pocket chronometer by Breguet. A single barrel with
fusee have replaced the double barrel caliber of the
earlier watches and the movement, developed from the
English caliber, however of more robust construction
throughout, was easier to produce in substantial number
at a reduce cost.