THE ART OF BREGUET

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991

LOT 20

Buyer unknown Watch No. 1388, Etablissement Mixte de Breguet, circa 1815. Gold watch with quarter-repeating.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 20,700

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.


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Note: Shortly before his death in 1823, Breguet published a short pamphlet designed to explain his current production to the general public, under the title: Horlogerie pour I'Usage Civil, Chronomètres Portatifs, Horloges Marines et A s tr onomiques et Autres Instruments d'Observation, de Breguet et Fils, Horlogers de la Marine Royale de France. In this short work under article 13, he explained the term: Etablissement Mixte de Breguet, which appears on certain of the firm's watches: "The mixtes watches, either simple or repeating, are made outside our workshops, but to our design and under our supervision. The escapement and regulator (balance, balance spring, etc.) are finished by us". Unfortunately, the sales register recording these watches was lost or destroyed many years ago, and it is therefore not possible to give an accurate date of sale, price or the name of the buyer.