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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 1994
LOT 20
Not signed, France, circa 1840. Rare and interesting, quarter repeating pocket chronometer with special escapement.
CHF 5,000 - 7,000
Sold: CHF 6,325
C. Silver, "forme quatre baguettes". Silver cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. GiIt brass, Lepine type calibre with free standing barrel, very unusual pivoted detent escapement with gold escape wheel, three-arm compensated balance of Louis Berthoud's type, blued steel flat balance spring. In very good condition. fliam 1S mm f ~i1
Notes
According to Charles Gros, only two or three escapements of this type are known to
exist. An escapement very similar was constructed in 1860 by M. Drompt, from the
Ecole d'Horlogerie de Cluse, however, the actual watch is certainly much earlier.