THE ART OF BREGUET
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991
LOT 108
A Messieurs Mir et Cottereau Watch No. 4269, completed on 5 September 1882, sold 29 December 1885, for the sum of 2500 Francs. Small gold hunting-cased keyless watch with quarter-repeating, perpetual calendar and phase of the moon.
CHF 80,000 - 100,000
Sold: CHF 92,000
Case: 18ct., four body, bassine et filets form, No. 12158, engine-turned à grains d'orge. Gold cuvette
signed: "Breguet No.4269".
Dial: White enamel, with Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals, subsidiary rings for days of the
week, month for the four year bissextile cycle and
date, the subsidiary seconds with aperture for
the phase and age of the moon. Blued-steel poires
hands.
Movement: Gilt brass, 14"', ebauche by Audemars, 32 jewels, counterpoised adjustable straight line
lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance. Bluedsteel
Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gongs
with a slide in the band.
In very good condition, accompanied by a gold
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Diam. 38 mm.
