Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 31, 1998

LOT 124

Breguet, Swiss, circa 1830. Fine and rare silver watch with special escapement.

C. Four body, "forme quatre baguettes " , engineturned, the back centred with a blank crowned escutcheon, the border engraved with rocaille decoration. Hinged silver cuvette. D. Small white enamel eccentric with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds above. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 22"' , gilt brass, bar calibre with free standing barrel, 13 jewels, Robin's type detent-lever escapement, plain gold three-arm balance, flat balance spring with Breguet type bimetallic compensation curb. Apocryphal signature engraved on the cuvette. Diam. 57 mm.