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Geneva, May 15, 2005

LOT 200

Breguet No. 1996 ? Horloge Marine Lettre B, sold to Monsieur Larré on December, 27, 1809 for 1680 Francs. Very fine, interesting and extremely rare small one-day marine chronometer.

CHF 35,000 - 45,000

EUR 23,000 - 30,000 / USD 30,000 - 40,000

Sold: CHF 39,100

C. Later, custom-made, three-body with glazed uppersection with hinged lid. Brass bowl and gimbaled suspen-sion.D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals andsubsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Unusualsmall brass half plate movement, fusee with chain andmaintaining power, platform spring detent escapement,three-arm compensation balance with poising and timingscrews, pare-chute suspension, free-sprung blued steelhelical balance spring with terminal curves.Movement signed, dial marked ?B?..Dial diam. 71 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3 - 15
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 6 - 01

Notes

Very few chronometers were produced solely by Breguet during his lifetime, even after his appointment as Horloger de la Marine. In 1819, in a letter to the Duke of La Roche-foucault, he complained that he had the title of Horloger de la Marine, without the functions that went with it. This is one of the very few chronometers produced by Breguet at a time when Louis Berthoud was still the official maker of the French Navy.