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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993
LOT 216
Duchemin à Paris, No. 332, circa 1830. Fine and rare 18 ct. gold, quarter-repeating watch with special escapement, constructed on the principals of the "garde-temps".
CHF 16,000 - 18,000
C. Four body, "forme quatre baguettes", engineturned. Gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. bluedsteel Breguet hands. M. 21-, gilt brass with freestanding barrel, 15 jewels, Robin's type detentlever escapement, bimetallic two-arm compensation balance, blued-steel flat balance spring. Repeating on gongs, the pull-twist piston in the pendant. Signed on the dial and the cuvette. In very good condition. Diam. 55 mm.
Notes
The escapement of this watch follows the
escapement, invented by Robert Robin in 1791
and used by Breguet for some of his "gardetemps