BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 1
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 2
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 3
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 4
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 5
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN - photo 6

BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN

Lot 59
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Sold
£ 37 800
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 59 | BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
BREGUET NO. 2189, ‘MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES QUARTS DE MOYENNE GRANDEUR’, AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING À TOC OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER POCKET WATCH, THE BACK COVER ENGRAVED WITH A MAP OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 2189, SOLD TO LA DUCHESSE DE BASSANO ON 9TH JULY 1810, FOR THE SUM OF 3000 FRANCS
CASE: no. 2234/2758, the back cover set with a silver panel engraved with a very fine and highly detailed gold-outlined map of the Iberian Peninsula within a chased gold stylized stiff-leaf and green translucent enamel border, inner bezel signed and numbered 'Breguet No. 2189' the inside back with case maker's mark 'PBT' within a lozenge-shaped cartouche for Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier, 'B' for Breguet and numbered '2234' and '2758' together with French control marks, 47.5 mm. diameter
DIAL: silver engine-turned secured by a screw, with Roman hours and outer dot minute markers, blued steel hands
MOVEMENT: gilt, jewelled wheel train, ruby cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance with pare-chute suspension, blued steel balance spring, repeating with a single hammer on the inside of the case activated by a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant
With: copy of a Breguet Certificate (no. 4406), dated 2nd May, 2014
The case - 47.5 mm. diameter




Provenance

Marie-Madeleine Léjéas-Carpentier, Duchesse de Bassano (1780-1827?), probably bought for her husband;
Hugues-Bernard Maret 1st Duke of Bassano (1763-1839), French statesman and diplomat; to his daughter;
Clare-Hortense Maret (c. 1812-1882); 1832 marriage to Francis Baring, 3rd Lord Ashburton (1800-1868); The Grange, Hampshire;
Thence by descent.
Manufactur:Breguet
Medium:Gold
Place of origin:Europe
Auction house category:Pocket watches, Wrist watches
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