Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 73

Breguet & Fils, No. 4877, sold to M. Jomars on 20 April 1832, for 1500 Francs.

CHF 7,000 - 8,000

Sold: CHF 7,475

Interesting pocket chronometer. Later specially made silver case. Engraved silver dial with Roman numerals and sunk subsidiary seconds. GiIt brass 21? full plate movement, relieved for the barrel and signed Breguet & Fils No. 4877, fusee with maintaining power, spring detent escapement, two armed bimetallic compensation balance with poising and timing screws, diamond end-stone, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves. Diam. 58 mm.

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This watch is a good example of the final development of the pocket chronometer by Breguet. A single barrel with fusee have replaced the double barrel caliber of the earlier watches and the movement, developed from the English caliber, however of more robust construction throughout, was easier to produce in substantial number at a reduce cost.