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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 521

Giteau, Eleve de M(onsieur) Breguet, Palais Royal No 140, No. 557, circa 1820.Fine 18K gold double train, independent dead center-seconds quarter-repeating watch

CHF 4,000 - 5,000

USD 2,400 - 3,000

Sold: CHF 8,050

C. Four-body, "Empire", engine-turned back, reeded band, gilt metal hinged cuvette, a bolt at 2 o'clock for blocking the pendant, another at 6 o'clock for activating and stopping the independent dead seconds train.D. Silver, Roman hour chapter on brushed ring, outer minute divisions, engine turned and whitened center. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. 49,5 mm, gilt brass bridge caliber, 6 jewels, standing barrels with Breguet-type continuous stop works, cylinder escapement, three-arm gold balance with flat balance-spring, escapement jeweled and capped, dead seconds mechanism controlled by a flirt mounted on the last pinion of the independent train meshing with additional pinion mounted on the escape wheel abor, repeating on gongs by depressing the pendant.Signed on the cuvette.Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 4 - 10 - 14
Movement: 4 - 5 - 6*
Dial: 3- 01

Good

Notes

Breguet's Pupils and Successors.Abraham-Louis Breguet will always be remembered as an inventor and an entrepreneur but he was also a devoted teacher. He enjoyed training his apprentices and employees, among which many became renowned watchmakers in their own right. Through their work transpired the master's teachings and influence, perpetuating the Breguet style. Giteau was one of them. He was in very impressive company of John Roger Arnold (1769-1843), only son of John Arnold, the celebrated English chronometer maker, Frederik Louis Fatton, Frédéric-Louis Favre-Bulle, Jacques-Frédéric Houriet (1743-1830), Urban Jürgensen (1776-1830) who, after training at Houriet's, came to Breguet, and Berthoud, Louis-Frédéric Perrelet (1781-1854) who, after his apprenticeship, was fully employed by Breguet, later becoming watchmaker to Louis XVIII and Charles X; Henri Robert (1795-1874), inspired both by Breguet and Perrelet and named "Watchmaker to the Navy" in 1847; Joseph-Tadeus Winnerl (1799-1886), who worked for Breguet beforsetting up on his own in Paris in 1832 to produce marine chronometers and who received many titles and distinctions during his career.