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BREGUET, YELLOW GOLD QUARTER REPEATING OPENFACE POCKET WATCH, NO. 1636

Price Realised CHF 17,500
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CHF 10,000 - CHF 15,000
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BREGUET, YELLOW GOLD QUARTER REPEATING OPENFACE POCKET WATCH, NO. 1636

Price Realised CHF 17,500
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Price Realised CHF 17,500
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CIRCA: 1805, sold on 13 Germinal, An 13 (13 April 1805) to Monsieur Castaneda for the sum of 1,350 Francs
CASE MATERIAL: Yellow gold
CASE DIAMETER: 62 mm.
DIAL: White enamel
MOVEMENT: Key-wound
FUNCTIONS: Quarter repeater
WITH: Breguet Certificate no. 3395, dated 5th June 1974

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Lot Essay

According to the Archives of Montres Breguet, watch no. 1636, “montre répétition à cuvette” was sold to Monsieur Castaneda on 13 Germinal An 13 in the republican calendar for the sum of 1,350 Francs. The archives confirm the guilloché ‘cannelée’ case, enamel dial with Breguet numerals, secret signature, blued steel hands, Breguet cylinder escapement, compensation and parachute. The design of the movement with the gongs on the outside of the movement ring when the cuvette is closed is unusual and was designed this way presumably to enhance the volume of the repeating.

Monsieur Castaneda was, along with Astenos, one of the two couriers that Breguet entrusted for the delivery and sale of some pieces destined for clients in Spain. The Spanish market was one of Breguet’s most long established, between 1798 and 1807 it represented around seventeen percent of the company’s annual sales. Even after their deposition in 1808, the Bourbons continued to buy extensively from Breguet, forty-four pieces in all. Another clockwatch, No. 1790, was sold via Castaneda on 23 October 1806 for 3,600 Francs. A minute repeating watch, No. 2246, was sent to Spain via Casteneda in 1807.

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