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Brand :
Breguet
Model :
Serpentine
Reference :
Serpentine
Category :
Clock
Watch ID :
4111 MONTRE
Movement :
Mechanical
Case material :
Silver
Case form :
Round
Bracelet material :
*plati*
Complications :
Calendar, Chronometre, Date
Description :
Lot Description.Breguet, Paris, No. 4111 Montre plate à équation et à répétition, sur le principe des chronomètres, répétant l'heure, la demie, les quarts et les demi-quarts. An exceptional 18K gold and silver equation of time watch with annual calendar, manual perpetual calendar, mean and true solar time, and half-quarter repeating, constructed on the principals of the garde-temps, in a Morocco fitted box No. 4111.Signed Breguet, Paris, No. 4111, sold on 10 January 1827 to Mr. Peyronnet for the sum of 7,500 Francs.25''' gilded brass movement, with going barrel, more than 21 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement with divided lift and straight pallets, banking against the escape wheel arbour, draw, cut bimetallic steel/platinum compensation balance with rims cut in the centre, sunk at the centre for the double roller, gold and platinum screws, with pare-chute suspension on both pivots, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the annual calendar driven from the gold days of the week wheel, making one revolution in five weeks, equation cam set at the centre of the annual wheel, ingenious system of transmitting power from the mean time motion work to the solar time motion work via special double wheel/double rack and pinion mechanism, repeating on a single blued steel gong with one hammer activated by a slide in the band, engine-turned silver dial by Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier, to the left true solar time subsidiary dial with Arabic radial numerals, outer minute track and yellow gold Breguet hands, symmetrically to the right mean time subsidiary dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and yellow gold Breguet hands, subsidiary dial for the seconds at noon with blued steel equilibrated hand, fast/slow setting aperture above 6 o'clock surmounted on the left with days of the week aperture and on the right with leap year indication aperture, outermost annual date track with indication of the month of the year and their length and date of the months giving by a long serpentine yellow gold hand making one revolution in one year, circular engine-turned à grains d'orge three body forme quatre baguettes yellow gold case, silver engine-turned band, ball-shaped pendant and round bow, case no. 4072 by Tavernier's workshop (later Master mark M A B), dial signed.61.2 mm. diam..View.Lot Notes ›
