Antique Breguet Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 11/11/2001
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Month-going, weight-driven astronomical long case regulator with one-minute passing striking, annual calendar and equation of time, Breguet, sold on October 28, 1847 Timekeeper with 3 Complications; Breguet, No 220, sold to Comte de Montalva on October 28, 1847, for 4,000 francs. Extremely rare, fine and important month-going, weight-driven astronomical long case regulator with one-minute passing striking, annual calendar and equation of time, accompanied by a certificate. C. Mahogany, glazed on both sides and the front with gilt borders, rectangular cresting above molded cornice supported by ormolu-mounted corbels with ormolu band above, paneled veneered plinth mounted with cast moldings. D. Silvered and matte, Roman hour chapter, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds ring at XII, cut out to show the escapement, sector for the equation of time with engine-turned center at VI. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Rectangular, 21,2 x 18 cm, heavy brass plates, doubleweights, four-wheel train, massive brass-steel gridiron pendulum beating seconds, suspended from a double suspension spring mounted to a heavy brass bracket in the case with length-regulating knob, the bracket has also an adjustable device for preventing excessive swinging of the pendulum, heavy brass bob with length-adjustment knob, micrometric beat adjustment on the crutch, dead-beat anchor escapement with stone pallets and the depth of the engagement regulating device, striking every minute wth a hammer raised by a cam mounted on the escape wheel arbor, lever protruding at 9 o'clock for striking/silence, annular wheel with 365 ratchet teeth set in the lower part of the movement, driven by a click on a spring-loaded lever raised and released once a day by a cam mounted on an intermediate wheel connected to the hour wheel with the ratio 1:2. Equation cam mounted on the annular wheel controls a rack meshing with the equation hand pinion. Signed on the dial Breguet, on the movement Breguet & Compie, the movement also numbered. Dim. Height 2 meters, width half meter

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