THE ART OF BREGUET

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991

LOT 19

CHF 35,000 - 40,000

Sold: CHF 36,800

Case: 18 ct., four body, collier form, by Amy Gros,No. 3893, engine-turned à grains d'orge. Gold cuvette signed: "Breguet No. 514".
Dial: White enamel, by Borel, signed: "Breguet", with Breguet numerals, concentric calendar ring and secret signature below "12". Blued-steel Breguet hands.
Movement: Gilt metal, 21-, Lepine caliber with free standing barrel, overhanging ruby cylinder escapement, three-arm plain brass balance, with unusual style parachute on the top pivot. Bluedsteel flat balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator. Repeating on two gongs with two hammers, with pull-twist piston in the pendant.
In good condition. Diam. 54 mm.


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History: Repurchased from a Monsieur Joubert on 31 December 1842, it was renumbered as 514 and sold to Monsieur Tredos.
Note: At the time he purchased this watch, Monsieur Tredos was director of the Breguet workshops under Louis Clément Breguet; his father, Louis, having retired to his country residence at Buisson near Verrière, in Seine et Oise. Encouraged by Monsieur Guibal, an old friend of A.L. Breguet, Monsieur Tredos had in vain tried to convince Louis Breguet to revise the court case, begun as far back as 1823, against Louis Moinet, for breach of trust.