French gold enamel and diamond montre à tact Circa 1803
- Kenmerk
- SA0526
- Diameter
- 39 mm
- Estimate
- € 35.000 - 70.000
- Price sold
- € 57.000
Fine and rare gold enamel and diamond set montre à tact
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A fine and rare French yellow gold hunting cased enamel and diamond set montre à tact sold to general Decamp January 1803. Gilt miniature souscription movement, ruby cylinder escapement, signed and numbered gold cuvette.
Silvered eccentric dial, Breguet numerals, and blued steel moon hands.
Translucent blue enamel covers over an engine-turned ground, applied diamond-set rose, the back cover with diamond-set arrow à tact hand, reeded band with diamond set touch pieces, diamond set suspension loop. Movement and cuvette signed Breguet case stamped and case maker’s mark ‘PBT’ for Paul Bernard Tavernier, the case further stamped with Paris goldmarks for 1798-1809, with a short Breguet double link chain and key.
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Diameter: 39 mm
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Signed: Breguet
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Accompanied by certificate no. 4002, dated March 31, 1993, from the Breguet archives which states that the watch was sold to Général Decamp for Fr. 1680 on 29 Nivose Ans 11 (19th January 1803).
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A fine and rare French yellow gold hunting cased enamel and diamond set montre à tact sold to general Decamp January 1803. Gilt miniature souscription movement, ruby cylinder escapement, signed and numbered gold cuvette.
Silvered eccentric dial, Breguet numerals, and blued steel moon hands.
Translucent blue enamel covers over an engine-turned ground, applied diamond-set rose, the back cover with diamond-set arrow à tact hand, reeded band with diamond set touch pieces, diamond set suspension loop. Movement and cuvette signed Breguet case stamped and case maker’s mark ‘PBT’ for Paul Bernard Tavernier, the case further stamped with Paris goldmarks for 1798-1809, with a short Breguet double link chain and key.
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Diameter: 39 mm
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Signed: Breguet
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Accompanied by certificate no. 4002, dated March 31, 1993, from the Breguet archives which states that the watch was sold to Général Decamp for Fr. 1680 on 29 Nivose Ans 11 (19th January 1803).
The montre à tact watch was invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet and produced between 1800 and 1834. The present watch is a relatively early example. It is said that they were worn by fashionable young men who wished to know the time without the embarrassment of their host knowing their anxiety, as one could tell the time without taking the watch out of your pocket.
The tact hand to the front of the case is turned until it catches the dial hand with a small protection which prevents it from rotating further and leaves the tact hand at the correct time. The position of the hand is then determined by the touch pieces set at the edge of the case. When the front is opened a small dial is revealed for setting the mechanism to time.
The tact hand to the front of the case is turned until it catches the dial hand with a small protection which prevents it from rotating further and leaves the tact hand at the correct time. The position of the hand is then determined by the touch pieces set at the edge of the case. When the front is opened a small dial is revealed for setting the mechanism to time.
Signed: Breguet
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