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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 388

?Vendue à Recordon? Breguet, No. 2097, sold to Recordon, on October 17, 1807, for 2,160 Francs. Very fine and very rare, 18K gold, quarter-repeating ?Repetition à Ponts Moyenne? with ruby cylinder escapement.

CHF 30,000 - 40,000

EUR 18,000 - 25,000 / USD 25,000 - 33,000

C. Three-body, ?forme collier?, by Joly, No. 1361, engine-turned back cover ?a grains d?orge?, polished bezel, reeded band. Cuvette with apertures for winding and regulation. D. Gold, secured by a screw, brushed chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute indexes, engine-turned center. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. 45 mm., 19???, frosted gilt, bridge calibre, blued steel screws, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, gilt three-arm balance with pare-chute an the top pivot, flat balance spring, index regulator, all-or-nothing repeating with a single hammer on a single gong activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant. Dial and cuvette signed. Diam. 48 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-15

Good

Slightly rusted
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-04

Good

HANDS Later

Notes

The Breguet archives record that this watch was returned for overhaul on December 18, 1827 at the request of Monsieur Alexandre de Bosnovoff, Rue de l?Universite, No. 27, Paris. This watch was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, ?The Art of Breguet? April 14, 1991, Lot 40.

Louis Recordon (1756-1826)
A watchmaker originally from Sainte Croix who settled first in Geneva and then in London, he was Breguet's friend and agent in England, and was responsible for selling approximately 75 of Breguet's watches to the British, including some to the British Monarchy. He was also one of the first to develop the self-winding watch, and in 1780 was granted "Letters Patent" by King George III, concerning an automatic winding mechanism.