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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 422

Breguet et Fils No. 1805, petite pendule à quatre parties, started on 21 Germinal An 13 (April 11, 1805) and sold to Monsieur André Berker on 26 Prairial an 13 (June 15, 1805) for 1.800 Francs.Very fine and rare mahogany, eight-day going, quarter repeating grande et petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and special escapement, with contemporary fitted box.

CHF 80,000 - 100,000

USD 45,000 - 55,000

Sold: CHF 113,500

C. Rectangular, mahogany veneered (veneer about 2mm thick) with sliding back door, folding brass handle on the top, ormolu bezel with 'water-leaf' decoration. Box: two-piece, leather covered with sliding front panel allowing the dial to be seen, a compartment in the back for a spare crystal, small gilded feet. D. White enamel, slightly convex, with Breguet numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. Brass rectangular with large double wheel barrel driving the going as well as the striking trains, pltform mounted dead-beat verge escapement with sapphire circular pallets and 11-teeth escape wheel, three-arm balance with eight gold timing and poising screws at the bottom, blued-steel flat balance spring, balance and escape wheel jeweled with endstones, long index regulator protruding to the end of the platform. Quarter repeating and striking on a bell with the mechanisms mounted on the back plate, top button release. Pull wind alarm striking on the same bell, fitted on the base.Signed Breguet on the dial and Breguet et Fils on the base of the movement.Dim. 18 x 13 x 10 cm.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 4*

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Accompanied by a certificate No. 3845, delivered by Breguet on May 13, 1985.Breguet?s first 'petite pendule à quatre parties' was made about a year before this one.The present lot is the second one.The escapement of this clock is a frictional rest dead beat verge escapement as described by George Daniels in 'The Art of Breguet', p. 314, fig. 393. Although it is called an 'échappement à levées naturelles' on Breguet?s certificate, it is in fact quite distinct from, and should not be confused with, Breguet?s 'échappement naturel'.An identical clock, No. 2020, is described in 'Carriage Clocks', by CHARLES ALLIX, 1974, p. 40, pl. II/4 and II/5.