French gold quarter repeating cylinder watch Circa 1835

Gold open faced cylinder pocket watch
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A gentleman’s fine half quarter repeating pocket watch with overhanging ruby cylinder escapement with, circa 1835.
An 18K gold case, silver dial, engine-turned, bridge movement, two hammers / two gongs, shock protection parachute, three-arm gold ring balance, temperature compensated balance spring.
This high-quality timepiece by Breguet has a beautiful early pendant with a pull-and-turn mechanism.
The watch possesses most technical features of the so-called Premiere Classe repeater watches jumping hour, overhanging ruby escapement, spring suspension of the top balance pivot and bimetallic temperature compensation.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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Weight: 51 g
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Signed:  Breguet Paris
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Members of the Vietinghoff family served in the governments and military of the Russian Tsars, the German Emperors, the Kings of Sweden, Denmark, Poland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Württemberg, Saxony and Prussia; they were in the service of the Dukes of Courland and Mecklenburg, the Dukes of Brunswick and Hanover as well as of the Margrave of Bayreuth.
Others were judges, privy councils, district administrators and chamberlains. As landowners and members of parliament, they took responsibility for agriculture and forestry, infrastructure and regional social and cultural strategies. A family member is listed as a pupil of Martin Luther in Wittenberg; many of the female Vietinghoffs served as court ladies or canonesses. Vietingshoffs defended the Western world against the Turkish armies more than once and fought against Wallenstein and Louis XIV – Georg Michael Baron von Vietinghoff (called Scheel), however, became a royal marshal of the French king. Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff was Minister of Health under Katherine the Great in Russia. Frederick the Great of Prussia had as many as two generals by the name Vietinghoff, Christian V of Denmark, Carl XII of Sweden, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander III of Russia, as well as other kings of Prussia and German Emperors; they all had a Vietinghoff in their service. Thirty-nine of that name fought against Napoléon Bonaparte (and some of them even for him) in the Napoleonic Wars.