C. three body, polished and brushed, screw down case back and crown, protection for the crown, transparentback, sapphire crystal. D. 'Army' semi-shining black composite with applied stainless steel Arabic numerals andtritium-coated indexes, aperture for the date. 'Bâton' tritium-coated stainless steel hands. M. Cal. 315/190, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodium plated, 'fausses côtes' decoration, 30 jewels, lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 35 x 41 mm.Approx. overall length: 210 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 4,500 - 5,500
Sold: USD 5,520
C. three body, solid, polished, case back with 8 screws, reeded band, sapphire-set winding crown, straight lugs, screwed bars. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary seconds dial. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 9''', rhodium plated, 18 jewels, 'fausses côtes' decoration, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 29 x 32 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 5,500 - 6,500
Sold: USD 7,475
C. three body, polished, partly engraved case back with six screws, reeded band, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on plain cartouches, auxiliary seconds dial. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 9''', Cal. 530, 21 jewels, rhodium plated, lever escapement, Kif shock-absorber, timed screw balance, 21,600 vibrations/hr.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 0 - 0
Sold: USD 5,750
C. three body, solid, polished, partly engraved case back with 6 screws, reeded band, straight lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary seconds dial, secret signature at 12. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 9''', Cal. 530, 21 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 32 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: USD 5,980
C. two body, solid, polished, transparent case back, 'Clous de Paris' bezel, reeded band, straight lugs. D. mattesilver with applied gold indexes, inner dial ring for the days of the month, aperture for the moon phases. 'Feuille' gold hands. M. 10 1/2''', gilt brass, 'fausses côtes' decoration, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 2 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gilt brass micro-rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 32 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 2,200 - 2,600
Sold: USD 2,300
C. three body, solid, polished and brushed, partly engraved case back with screws, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, coaxial winding crown which sets both the 'World Time' for the cities and the hands. D. 'guilloché' silver designed to depict a globe, painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, ring for the 24 hours for the 'World Time', outer bidirectional revolving ring with the names of World Cities, aperture for the date. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 11''', Cal. 563, rhodiuplated, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor, twin barrel, 21,000 vibrations/hr.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 10,000 - 11,000
Sold: USD 12,650
C. three body, solid, polished and brushed, partly engraved case back with screws, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, coaxial winding crown which sets both the 'World Time' for the cities and the hands. D. 'guilloché' silver designed to depict a globe, painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, ring for the 24 hours for the 'World Time', outer bidirectional revolving ring with the names of World Cities, aperture for the date. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 11''', Cal. 563, rhodiuplated, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor, twin barrel, 21,000 vibrations/hr.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.Approx. overall length: 227 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 14,000 - 16,000
Sold: USD 17,250
C. three body, solid, polished and brushed, partly engraved case back with six screws, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, protected ogival-shaped winding crown with signature, sapphire crystal. D. 'guilloché' mother-of-pearl with painted radial Roman numerals and an outer ring of diamond indexes all on a mother-of pearl reserve, aperture for the date. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. Cal. 549, rhodium plated, 33 jewels, lever escapement, timed-annular balance, 22K 'guilloché' gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.Approx. overall length: 210 mm.
Grading System: AA
USD 15,000 - 17,000
Sold: USD 16,675
C. three body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on an off-center brushed silver reserve, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 11''', rhodium plated, 35 jewels, lever escapement, timed-annular balance, Kif shock-absorber, 18,000 vibrations/hr., 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 10,000 - 12,000
C. three body, solid, polished, reeded band. D. white enamel with painted Breguet numerals, cryptographic signature, aperture for the jump hour. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. 11 1/2''', Cal. 561, rhodium plated, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensated flat balance-spring. Movement with two barrels in tandem.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 15,000 - 17,000
Sold: USD 18,400
C. three body, solid, polished, partly 'guilloché' back, on a plain gold ring the names of the most famous royal and aristocratic clients of Abraham-Louis Breguet, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars. D. 'guilloché' silver with outer minute graduation on a plain reserve and ten minute graduation in painted arabic numerals on five cartouches, auxiliary hour plain ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals, aperture for the date. Under the 12, a plain medallion with the signature, theate '1747-1997' and the number. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. Cal. 591HDT, double-barrel, mechanical with automatic winding, 22K 'guilloché' gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 12,000 - 14,000
Sold: USD 14,950
C. three body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs, partly engraved back. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the leap year, graduation for the age of the moon and up-and-down indication, aperture for the moon phases. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. rhodium plated, 'fausses côtes' decoration, 38 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorberself-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 20,000 - 22,000
C. three body, solid, reeded band, straight lugs, screwed bars, transparent back, sapphire crystal. D. 'guilloché' silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the tourbillon, seconds hand on the tourbillon shaft, power reserve and sector for fly back 24 hour indication. 'Breguet' blued steel hands. M. Cal. 560, 24 jewels, hand engraved gilt brass, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 40 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 32,000 - 40,000
Sold: USD 48,300
Jaquet-Droz, 'The Writer'.Automaton, One of Three Pieces Produced, 1997.
C. Depicting Pierre Jaquet-Droz sitting at a writing table. The figure is entirely mechanical, activated by a winding key. Once wound, Jaquet-Droz's head follows his quill pen as he writes 'I Love You'. His right hand holds the pen as his left hand is lowered to hold the paper. His eyelids are raised and lowered with each movement. The winding key allows the figure to perform 10 repetitions.The figure of Jaquet-Droz is wearing period dress: a royal blue velvet coat over a light blue waist coat with brassbuttons, all over a white shirt with a ruffled collar and cuffs, stockings and colonial black shoes with a brass buckle. He is holding a brass quill feather pen in one hand. He is sitting on a black lacquered stool and leaning over a black lacquered writing table with a scalloped edge and cabriolet legs, the top inset with burgundy leather. The table and stool rest on a wood base with a parquet-like wood floor inset. The base and automaton measure 19 1/2 inches long, 11 3/4 inches wide and 19 inhes high.This exceptional automaton is constructed of 1,000 minute components, with the mechanism of the automaton taking place in the body of Jaquet-Droz.
Grading System:
USD 130,000 - 150,000
C. three body, solid, polished, reeded band, winding crown winds clockwise for the watch and counterclockwise for the automaton and music, transparent case back with erotic scene of two figures painted on enamel. D. matte silver with applied yellow gold arrowhead indexes. 'Feuille' yellow gold hands. M. mechanical, bidirectional winding crown, two train movement with automatic winding and for the first time, music on four blades.Dial signed.Diam. 37 mm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 32,000 - 36,000
Sold: USD 34,500
Jaquet-Droz, 1998.Very fine and rare, gilt brass singing bird clock with one bird.
C. octagonal gilt brass, enamel side panels with alternating gilt brass triumphal crests and gilt brass framed enameled medallion paintings; the paintings depict a peasant boy and his dog, a peasant girl and her cat, a peasant girl and her doves and a peasant boy fishing, flanked by fluted pilasters on the apex of each angle, with turned columns above terminating in flambeau urn finials; wirework cage and ring suspension. D. bombé white enamel, mounted below, with black painted Roman numerals anouter Arabic numeral minute ring. 'Louis XV' engraved and gilt brass hands. M. The clock mechanical movement is mounted in the base under a brass fret-work panel. The automaton mechanics, capable of six different tunes,consists of fusee and steel cable, rectangular section bellows and pin-drum for ten pipes. The bird will sing after the striking of the hour or when activated by pulling a cord. The bird is decorated with natural feathers and when activated moves its body, head, beak and tail. Thbird's sound is similar to that of a music box or an organ grinder's hurdy-gurdy. The French word for this instrument is a serinette.Dial and movement signed.Dim. 49 x 28 cm.
Grading System: AAA
USD 150,000 - 170,000
Amusing Animated Walking Stick, circa 1900
Designed from a carved wooden monkey?s head, with a push button on the back of the head which moves the eyes and tongue, with a gold-plated collar on a bamboo shaft.
USD 1,200 - 1,400
Amusing Animated Walking Stick, circa 1900
The handle designed from a carved wooden monkey?s head wearing a hat, with a push button on the back of the hat that moves the eyes and mouth, on a mahogany shaft with a horn ferrule.
USD 1,400 - 1,800
Sold: USD 1,265
Amusing Animated Walking Stick, circa 1900
Having a carved dog?s head handle with glass eyes and a flange below the dog?s mouth, with a silver collar, on an exotic wood shaft tipped with a horn ferrule. With hallmark and maker?s mark
USD 800 - 1,000
Sold: USD 863
Amusing Animated Walking Stick, circa 1900
The wooden handle carved as the head of a pug, with a push button under the chin that rolls the eyes and sticks out the tongue, with an 18K yellow gold, textured wavy collar, on an exotic wood shaft having a horn ferrule.
USD 1,300 - 1,500