Lot 615

Breguet à Paris, Number 436, Height 1980 mm, circa 1860
A very fine precision pendulum clock with copy of the Breguet extract from the archives no. 3322 from June 27th, 1972 - sold on June 27th, 1972 to Monsieur Hawkins for the sum of 12,700 Francs
Case: oak, mahogany veneer, moulded and tiered base, glazed on three-sides, moulded frames, moulded and tiered gable, heavy brass attachement. Dial: silvered, signed, gilt bezel, radial Roman hours, sunk auxiliary seconds at "12", blued steel hands. Movm.: very fine brass movement, solid pillars, finest teethed train, hardened mirror polished steel shafts, Graham escapement with large sapphire pallets, lever and escape wheel with sapphire bearings in screwed chatons, weight winding via pulley, gridiron pendulum with three steel and two zinc rods, fine adjusting via threaded rod, heavy brass pendulum bob with central adjusting nut.
Emmanuel Breguet (Vice President, Head of Patrimony & Strategic Development) commented on this outstanding clock:
The piece has been sold on June 27, 1972 to “Mr. Hawkins”. And it is a work made around 1850. And it looks like a regulator decorating the Breguet boutique at Place Vendôme 28, until 1970 (Mr. Brown's period).

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