Swiss repeater with independent dead centre seconds Circa 1870
- Kenmerk
- AA0093
- Diameter
- 49 mm
- Estimate
- € 12.500 - 20.000
- Price sold
- € 16.300
Gold pocket watch with open face by Breguet
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A very fine and rare, Swiss, two-train, quarter-repeating pocket watch with independent jump centre seconds in a plain 18-carat gold case, circa 1870.
White enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minutes/seconds track, centre seconds, and blued Breguet hands. And the movement is 19′” calibre with a two train lever escapement. Dial signed and case numbered.
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Diameter: 49 mm
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Signed: Breguet
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It is very unusual to find that time these two complications: independent dead seconds in which the movement has two trains, one conventional, and the second with a sweep-seconds hand which can be stopped without stopping the main train (invented by Moise Pouzait in 1776) activated by push-piece located on the case band at 7 o’clock and a quarter repeater mechanism activated by a slide on the band at 3 o’clock.
Signed: Breguet




















