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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


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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.