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Hotel Nogalhilton Geneve, Nov 11, 2001

LOT 323

Breguet No. 2, Horloger de la Marine Royal, "Garde Temps", sold to Comte Mercy d'Argenteau on January, 28, 1824, for 3,400 francs.Exceptionally fine and rare 18K gold half quarter-repeating pocket chronometer with jump hour hand, date, annual calendar indication and equation of time engraved on the cuvette, accompanied by original morocco fitted box and certificate.

C. Four-body, "forme collier", No. 118 made by Joly, engine-turned back, bezels and band, gold hinged cuvette engraved with equation table around the edge, winding aperture. D. Silver, radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds between III and IV o'clock, symmetrically to the left 30-day date, secured by a screw above VI o'clock. Blued steel, Breguet hands. M. 26''', gilt bridge caliber, 20 jewels, straight-line calibrated long lever escapement, two-arm cut-bimetalic compensation balance with gold quarter screws and platinum temperature ones, blued steel Breguet balance spring, double roller table, gold dart, club-tooth steel escape wheel, repeating train with "anchor" governor, repeating on one gong with one hammer via an intermediate steel block.Signed "Breguet et Fils" on the dial, "Breguet, Horloger de la Marine Royale" on the cuvette.Diam. 57 mm.