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Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 83

Altesse le Prince Belosselsky Breguet, No. 3795, delivered to Jousselin & Brasch for Prince Belosselsky on January 11, 1823 for 2,200 Francs. Very fine and rare 20K gold half-quarter repeating pocket watch with jump-hour-hand.

CHF 50,000 - 70,000

EUR 30,000 - 45,000 / USD 40,000 - 55,000

Sold: CHF 71,300

C. Four-body, ?forme quatre baguettes?, No. 3918 by master casemaker Tavernier, engine-turned, gold hinged cuvette.D. Silver, by Tavernier, champlevé Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds between III and IIII o?clock. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 47 mm (21''') frosted gilt, bridge caliber, jeweled to the center, hanging barrel with Breguet continuous stopwork, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, gilt 3-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring, pare-chute on the top balance pivot, temperature compensation curb, Breguet type all-or-nothing repeating system with lifters disengaging by vertical movement, repeating on single gong via intermediate block by pull-and-twist piston in the pendant.Signed on dial and case.Diam. 53 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

Prince Belosselsky-Belozersky in the uniform of the Hussar Guard From the archives of Jacques Ferrand. Espere Alexandrovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky (1802-1846) Son of Prince Alexandre Mikhailovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky (Imperial Ambassador, ?grand-échanson? of the Imperial Court, Senator, and member of the Academy of Sciences), and his wife Anna Gregorievna Kozitzky. Espere Alexandrovitch Belosselsky-Belozersky was an officer in the regiment of the Hussars of the Guard, and ?aide-de-camp? of the Russian Emperor, General Major in the Emperor's suite, and head of the Administration of the police of the Nicolaievsky railroad. He married Helena Pavlovna Bibikoff (1812-1888), with whom he had five children. The watch was made to a very high standard; it is jeweled to the center, with repetition system developed by Breguet along the principles laid out by Stogden, and a jump hour mechanism for easy reading. Jousselin & Brasch were important merchants in Russia, with many aristocratic clients.