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 chain.< /STRONG> Diam. 38 mm.


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Note: This watch is certainly one of the smallest repeating pocket watches with perpetual calendar ever made. According to Monsieur Georges Brown, the former proprietor of Breguet, it was the smallest example they ever sold.