THE ART OF BREGUET
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991
Buyer unknown Watch No. 1388, Etablissement Mixte de Breguet, circa 1815. Gold watch with quarter-repeating.
Case: 18 ct., four body, Empire form, with bombé
reeded band, the back engine-turned à grains d'
orge. Gilt metal cuvette signed: "Etablissement
Mixte de Breguet, No. 1388".
Dial: White enamel, with Breguet numerals.
Blued-steel Breguet hands.
Movement: Gilt brass, 21-, bar caliber, with free
standing barrel, cylinder escapement with threearm
plain brass balance with parachute on the top
pivot. Blue-steel flat balance spring with
bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator.
Repeating on two gongs with two hammers, the
pull-twist piston in the pendant.
In very good condition.
Diam. 55 mm.