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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 619

Grande and Petite Sonnerie Breguet, Paris, No. 2413. Made circa 1890. Fine and very rare, gilt brass, 8-day going, grande and petite sonnerie striking carriage clock with quarter repeat and alarm. Accompanied by the very fine, original gold tooled red morocco leather fitted Breguet box and numbered key.

C. Gilt brass, multi-piece, "Empire", glazed on four sides and the top, four fluted Corinthian type pilasters, two on each corner, with anthemion and flower-head chased entablatures and bases, hinged back door for access to the movement, engine-turned top with glazed oval center, pivoted handle with lion's head terminals, four ball finials, repeat button, the base with grande sonnerie/silence/quarters selection lever, four reeded bun feet. D. Silver with champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, subsidiary alarm setting dial below, engineturned center, gilt brass engine-turned dial plate. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Rectangular, 85 x 60 mm, gilt brass, spring barrels for the going and striking trains, lateral lever escapement set on a platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters with two hammers on two gongs, repeating activated by depressing the push-piece at the top of the case, separate alarm train with its own hammer. Dial and movement signed and numbered. Dim. Height 14 cm (without handle) width 9 cm, depth 7.7 cm.