Antique Breguet Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 10/15/2000
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Catalog Description:

Mahogany, eight-day going, quarter repeating grande et petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and special escapement, with contemporary fitted box. Breguet et Fils, c. 1805 Breguet et Fils No. 1805, petite pendule a quatre parties, started on 21 Germinal An 13 (April 11, 1805) and sold to Monsieur Andre Berker on 26 Prairial an 13 (June 15, 1805) for 1.800 Francs. Very fine and rare mahogany, eight-day going, quarter repeating grande et petite sonnerie carriage clock with alarm and special escapement, with contemporary fitted box. C. Rectangular, mahogany veneered (veneer about 2mm thick) with sliding back door, folding brass handle on the top, ormolu bezel with 'water-leaf' decoration. Box: two-piece, leather covered with sliding front panel allowing the dial to be seen, a compartment in the back for a spare crystal, small gilded feet. D. White enamel, slightly convex, with Breguet numerals. Blued-steel Breguet hands. M. Brass rectangular with large double wheel barrel driving the going as well as the striking trains, pltform mounted dead-beat verge escapement with sapphire circular pallets and 11-teeth escape wheel, three-arm balance with eight gold timing and poising screws at the bottom, blued-steel flat balance spring, balance and escape wheel jeweled with endstones, long index regulator protruding to the end of the platform. Quarter repeating and striking on a bell with the mechanisms mounted on the back plate, top button release. Pull wind alarm striking on the same bell, fitted on the base. Signed Breguet on the dial and Breguet et Fils on the base of the movement. Dim. 18 x 13 x 10 cm.

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