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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 279

?A Monsieur Hainguerlot? Breguet, No. 1362, sold to Monsieur Hainguerlot on 25 Fructidor, An 12 (September 12, 1804), for 1,600 Francs. Very fine and extremely rare, large, 18K gold ?Souscription Moyenne à tact? pocket watch with ruby cylinder escapement, short gold chain, key and Breguet fitted box. Accompanied by a certificate.

CHF 40,000 - 60,000

EUR 25,000 - 37,000 / USD 33,000 - 50,000

Sold: CHF 100,300

C. Three-body, "forme quatre baguettes", by Tavernier, No. 2262, front cover with "sunburst" engine-turning and twelve touch pieces on the edge, ?sunburst? engine-turned back with silver arrow, coin-edge band, loose ring pendant. Detachable polished cuvette with apertures for winding, hand setting, regulating and the dial. D. White enamel, small, eccentric set in the cuvette aperture, radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. 50 mm, gilt brass, souscription caliber with central barrel and five-wheel train, ruby cylinder escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, pare-chute fitted to the top pivot, blued steel flat balance spring, blued steel regulator arm with arc terminal. Signed and numbered on the cuvette, case numbered and punched with Tavernier's mark. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3-15

Good

Slightly rusted
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-36-06

Good

Partially re-gilt

HANDS Partially replaced

Notes

A very similar watch is illustrated in ?The Art of Breguet?, George Daniels, 1974, p. 189, fig. 160a-c. The Hainguerlot Family owned of the chateau of Villandry near Tours. The Hainguerlots became the owners of the Compagnie des canaux, that owned the rights to the Canal de l?Ourcq and the Canal Saint Denis.