Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 112

A La Breguet Mathieu, Place de la Bourse a Paris, No. 1826. Made circa 1830. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K rose gold pocket watch with ruby cylinder escapement. To be sold without reserve

HKD 15,000 - 22,000

USD 2,100 - 3,100 / EUR 1,500 - 2,200

Sold: HKD 16,200

C. Four-body, ?Empire?, engine-turned ?grains d?orge?. Hinged gold cuvette, the border engraved ?Lenoir?. D. Silver, engineturned, radial Roman numerals on a brushed reserve, outer minute divisions. Gold Breguet hands. M. 44 mm., frosted gilt, jewelled to the third wheel, English-type ruby cylinder escapement with steel escape wheel, plain three-arm balance with parechute on the upper pivot, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator with bimetallic temperature compensation curb, repeating on gongs activated by a pull-and-twist button in the pendant. Dial and cuvette signed, reverse of the dial punched ADLG. Diam. 50 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-9-01

Good

Scratched

HANDS Original

Notes

This is a finely made watch directly in the style of Breguet and incorporating his parachute suspension and temperature compensation curb.