THE ART OF BREGUET
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991
LOT 6
Aux Frères Chaudoir Watch No. 55, sold on 29 Pluviose an 10 (18 February 1802). Gold watch, with jump hours and 10- minute repeating, using both a gong and the case block.
CHF 40,000 - 50,000
Sold: CHF 55,200
Case: 18 ct., two body, by Mermillod, No. 882,
engine-turned ô grains d'orge, the back with an
oval blank reserve.
Dial: White enamel, by Borel, signed: "Breguet",
with Breguet numerals and subsidiary seconds at
"2", secret signature below "12" (virtually invisible
hair cracks). Gilt brass dial plate signed: "Breguet,
No. 55". Gold Breguet hands.
Movement: Gilt brass, inverted full plate caliber
of the type used for repeating garde-temps
watches, the back plate relieved for the barrel
which is retained by a bridge; overhanging ruby
cylinder escapement, three-arm plain brass
balance, with parachute on the top pivot. Bluedsteel
flat balance spring with bimetallic
compensation curb on the regulator. Hour
repeating à toc, with single hammer striking
directly on the case, the same hammer striking
the 10 minutes on a blued-steel gong fixed to the
interior of the case.
In good condition.
Diam. 57 mm.
