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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 40

Breguet, Swiss, circa 1820.Fine 18K gold, two-train, petite et grande sonnerie clockwatch, quarter hour repeating watch with special escapement.

C. Four-body, 'demi-bassine', polished back cover, bezels with small reeded pattern, reeded band, hinged, glazed cuvette with gold bezel. D. Silver, engine-turned in the center, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, blued-steel Breguet hands. M. 23???, skeltonized half-plate, fire-gilded, virgule escapement, monometallic brass balance, the striking mechanism on the back plate to be viewed through the glazed cuvette, a lever for change from petite to grande sonnerie extending to the case at 7 o?cloc, 'striking/silence' lever at 4 o?clock, repeater via striking train activating by a push-button in the pendant, striking and repeating on two gongs.Signed on the dial.Diam. 57.5 mm.