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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Hong-kong, Jun 08, 2002

LOT 23

Recordon, late Emery, Cockspur Str., Charing Cross, London, No. 8932, case hallmarked 1806.Very fine 18K gold quarter-hour dumb repeating watch with special escapement.

HKD 28,000 - 36,000

EUR 4,000 - 5,200 / USD 3,600 - 4,600

C. Three-body, "Empire", back cover and band engine-turned, polished bezel, pull-and-twist repeater activation piston in the pendant. D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "arrow" hands. M. 45.8 mm., gilt brass, full plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, ruby cylinder escapement with brass escape wheel, gold three-arm balance, blued steel flat balance spring with compensation curb, escapement jeweled and capped, small single-footed cock engravd with a mask, gilt brass dust-cap, repeating on two gold blocks by depressing piston in the pendant.Signed on the dial and cuvette. Diam. 55 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3 - 14
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 11 - 01

Notes

Louis Recordon (1756-1826)A watchmaker originally from Sainte-Croix who settled first in Geneva and then in London, he was Breguet's friend and agent in England, responsible for selling about 75 Breguet watches to the British, including some to the British Monarchy.The watch clearly shows Recordon's continental origin. In spite of the movement, which is typically English, the case, the dial, the pull-twist piston through the pendant and the compensation curb are clearly in the Breguet style."Dictionnaire des Horlogers Genevois" by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum Editions, Geneva, 1998.