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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 140

Breguet, No. 1415, Garde-temps, sold to Prince Gagarine for 1200 Francs, according to Moreau?s accounts from May 1, 1810.Fine and important silver pocket chronometer, began by Breguet before his departure to Switzerland, completed just before it was sold.

CHF 75,000 - 90,000

Sold: CHF 82,700

C. Double body, ?forme collier?, polished, the back engraved with the coat of arms of Count Strogonov. Gilt brass detachable cuvette. D. White enamel, regulator type by Borel, No. 1415 (signed on the enamel backing) with small eccentric Breguet hour chapter ring, outer minute ring on border of the bezel and subsidiary seconds on chapter ?12?. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Frosted and gilt, 23???, early garde-temps calibre, the inverted fusee with maintaining power, pivoted detent escapement, thre-arm bimetallic compensation balance with pare-chute suspension on both pivots, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves and gold amplitude limitation device.Signed on the dial, cuvette and movement.Diam. 62 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: * 3
Dial: 3 - 6 - 01

Notes

The case and the ebauche of this watch were made by Breguet at the beginning of the Revolution, An 11 (1803), but the watch was not completed before October 5, 1809, when it was sent to Moreau, in charge of the Maison de Russie (the Breguet outlet in Russia).The case of this watch, being made during the French Revolution period, does not carry any hallmarks nor Breguet serial numbers, but the pendant is punched with the mark of Jean-François Kalandrin, appointed on February 23, 1789, as the last Fermier General of the Monarchy.Strogonov, Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich. He entered service in 1783 and rose through the ranks. In 1821 he was made Privy Councillor, and on August 22, 1826, was granted the rank of Count of the Russian Empire, for himself and his descendants.