THE ART OF BREGUET
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991
LOT 56
A Son Altesse Le Prince Frédéric Guillaume, Louis de Prusse, Fils du Roi. Watch No. 2846, sold on 2 May 1814, for the sum 1248 Francs. Gold watch with quarter-repeating.
CHF 40,000 - 45,000
Case: 18 ct., three body, quatre baguettes form, by Amy Gros, with reeded band an polished back.
Gold cuvette signed: "Breguet No. 2846".
Dial: White enamel, with Breguet numerals (
restorations), secret signature beneath "12".
Blued-steel Breguet hands.
Movement: Gilt metal, 19"', bar caliber, with free standing barrel, ruby cylinder escapement, with
parachute on the top pivot. Blued-steel flat balance
spring Repeating on two gongs with two hammers
by depressing the pendant.
In good condition.
Diam. 49 mm.
Notes
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig IV KING OF PRUSSIA (1795 -1861)
Born in Berlin, on the 15th of October 1795, he grew up to be a romantic but indecisive man. His accession to the throne in 1840 was greeted with enthusiasm as a result of his promise to introduce reforms; a committment he did not uphold, the result being a revolt in 1848. Forced to enact a more liberal constitution, he then continued to modify the terms, refusing to accept the Imperial Crown offered to him by the Frankfurt Assembly in 1849, preferring the politics of a "Little Germany" as proposed by his minister Radewitz. Unfortunately afflicted by mental ill-health he renounced the throne in 1858, in favour of his brother Wilhelm I, and died in Potsdam in 1861.