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New York, Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, Jun 20, 1998

LOT 264

Breguet & Fils, Swiss, No. 15217, circa 1820. Fine and rare 18K gold, quarter striking, minute repeating clock watch.

USD 11,000 - 13,000

Sold: USD 12,650

C. Four body, "Empire" with reeded band, the back chased with a seating figure of Jupiter below a shining sun. Hinged gilt brass cuvette. D. Gold engine-turned in a rosette pattern with Roman numerals on a polished chapter ring. Blued-steel "spade" hands with polished tips. M. Gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, double train with going barrels both on the going and the striking trains, cylinder escapement, plain polished steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator. Hour and quarter striking train with polished-steel count wheel on the back plate, striking on two square polished-steel gongs with two hammers. Minute repeating on two square polished steel gongs by depressing the pendant with independent work. Apocryphal signature on the dial and the cuvette. Dian). 61 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-51

Very good

Partially reprinted

Notes

Minute repeating watches from this period are very rare, even more so when also fitted with an independent quarter striking train. The polished-steel striking work on the back plate is very si milar to that of the bracket clocks made in Switzerland in the Canton of Neuchatel.