95th Auction
2017/5/6
Lot 151
Breguet et Fils, Case No. Breguet 3190, Tavernier Nr. 3605, 40 mm, 51 g, circa 1835
A gentleman's fine half quarter repeating pocket watch with overhanging ruby cylinder escapement - sold on February 5th 1819 to Baron de Vietinghoff for 3.000 Frs
Case: 18K gold. Dial: silver, engine-turned. Movm.: bridge movement, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, shock protection-"parachute", three-arm gold ring balance, temperature compensated balance spring.
This high quality timepiece by Breguet has a beautiful early pendant with a pull-and-turn mechanism. The watch possesses most of the technical features of the so-called "Premiere Classe" repeater watches: jumping hour, overhanging ruby escapement, spring suspension of the balance top pivot and bimetallic temperature compensation.
Members of the Vietinghoff family served in governments and military of the Russian Tsars, the German Emperors, the Kings of Sweden, Denmark, Poland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Württemberg, Saxony and Prussia; they were in the service of the Dukes of Courland and Mecklenburg, the Dukes of Brunswick and Hanover as well as of the Margrave of Bayreuth. Others were judges, privy councils, district administrators and chamberlains. As land owners and members of parliament they took responsibility for agriculture and forestry, infrastructure and regional social and cultural strategies. A member of the family is listed as a pupil of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, many of the female Vietinghoffs served as court ladies or canonesses. Vietingshoffs defended the Western world against the Turkish armies more than once and fought against Wallenstein and Louis XIV - Georg Michael Baron von Vietinghoff (called Scheel) however, became a royal marshal of the French king. Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff was Minister of Health under Katherine the Great in Russia. Frederick the Great of Prussia had as many as two generals by the name Vietinghoff, Christian V of Denmark, Carl XII of Sweden, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander III of Russia as well as other kings of Prussia and German Emperors, they all had a Vietinghoff in their service. 39 of that name fought against Napoléon Bonaparte (and some of them even for him) in the Napoleonic Wars.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietinghoff
A gentleman's fine half quarter repeating pocket watch with overhanging ruby cylinder escapement - sold on February 5th 1819 to Baron de Vietinghoff for 3.000 Frs
Case: 18K gold. Dial: silver, engine-turned. Movm.: bridge movement, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, shock protection-"parachute", three-arm gold ring balance, temperature compensated balance spring.
This high quality timepiece by Breguet has a beautiful early pendant with a pull-and-turn mechanism. The watch possesses most of the technical features of the so-called "Premiere Classe" repeater watches: jumping hour, overhanging ruby escapement, spring suspension of the balance top pivot and bimetallic temperature compensation.
Members of the Vietinghoff family served in governments and military of the Russian Tsars, the German Emperors, the Kings of Sweden, Denmark, Poland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Württemberg, Saxony and Prussia; they were in the service of the Dukes of Courland and Mecklenburg, the Dukes of Brunswick and Hanover as well as of the Margrave of Bayreuth. Others were judges, privy councils, district administrators and chamberlains. As land owners and members of parliament they took responsibility for agriculture and forestry, infrastructure and regional social and cultural strategies. A member of the family is listed as a pupil of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, many of the female Vietinghoffs served as court ladies or canonesses. Vietingshoffs defended the Western world against the Turkish armies more than once and fought against Wallenstein and Louis XIV - Georg Michael Baron von Vietinghoff (called Scheel) however, became a royal marshal of the French king. Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff was Minister of Health under Katherine the Great in Russia. Frederick the Great of Prussia had as many as two generals by the name Vietinghoff, Christian V of Denmark, Carl XII of Sweden, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander III of Russia as well as other kings of Prussia and German Emperors, they all had a Vietinghoff in their service. 39 of that name fought against Napoléon Bonaparte (and some of them even for him) in the Napoleonic Wars.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietinghoff
estimated
27.000—38.000 €
Price realized
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