Swiss 18 Carat gold quarter repeating watch Circa 1795
- Kenmerk
- FA0286
- Diameter
- 55 mm
- Estimate
- € 12.500 - 20.000
- Price sold
- € 15.700
Fine gold virgule watch
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A fine and extremely rare Swiss quarter repeating, 18 Carat gold pedometer type self winding pocket watch with virgule escapement, circa 1795. Made in Switzerland during the French Revolutionary period.
Gilt brass movement, 3/4 plate, going barrel wound by an crescent shaped gold weight with limiting device to prevent winding when fully wound, virgule escapement, three arm gold balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two hammers on two square section gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Polished case with stepped bezel and border. Gold rimmed glazed cuvette.
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute indexes and Arabic quarter hour numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands.
Dial and movement signed Breguet, case with maker’s mark JAB, numbered on the pendant.
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A fine and extremely rare Swiss quarter repeating, 18 Carat gold pedometer type self winding pocket watch with virgule escapement, circa 1795. Made in Switzerland during the French Revolutionary period.
Gilt brass movement, 3/4 plate, going barrel wound by an crescent shaped gold weight with limiting device to prevent winding when fully wound, virgule escapement, three arm gold balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two hammers on two square section gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Polished case with stepped bezel and border. Gold rimmed glazed cuvette.
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute indexes and Arabic quarter hour numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands.
Dial and movement signed Breguet, case with maker’s mark JAB, numbered on the pendant.
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Diameter: 55 mm
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Signed: Breguet
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This watch is extremely interesting. Its fine workmanship and certain details reminiscent of features used in watches made by Breguet after his return to France in 1795, suggest that it might have been one of those made by Breguet during his Neuchâtel exile. Features indicative of Breguet’s work are the limiting device with three slots and the crescent shaped weight geared to the wolf’s tooth wheel (this arrangement of wheels is also used for the up and down indication in many of Breguet’s watches). This watch is also comparable, in terms of its appearance and type of winding, to the self-winding watches made by Perrelet and the Jaquet Droz during the last quarter of the 18th century. During the Revolutionary period, Breguet used Lépine ébauches with virgule escapements.
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Signed: Breguet
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This watch is extremely interesting. Its fine workmanship and certain details reminiscent of features used in watches made by Breguet after his return to France in 1795, suggest that it might have been one of those made by Breguet during his Neuchâtel exile. Features indicative of Breguet’s work are the limiting device with three slots and the crescent shaped weight geared to the wolf’s tooth wheel (this arrangement of wheels is also used for the up and down indication in many of Breguet’s watches). This watch is also comparable, in terms of its appearance and type of winding, to the self-winding watches made by Perrelet and the Jaquet Droz during the last quarter of the 18th century. During the Revolutionary period, Breguet used Lépine ébauches with virgule escapements.
Signed: Breguet
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