101st Auction
2019/11/16
Lot 367
Breguet à Paris, No. 443, Case No. 2699, 47 mm, 63 g, circa 1838
A quarter repeating pocket watch of historical interest, sold on November 28, 1838 to Monsieur François Delessert for 1000 Francs - with certificate no. 4562
Case: 18k gold, engine-turned, numbered and signed gold dome, pusher for repetition via pull-twist piston through the pendant. Dial: silver, engine-turned, radial Roman numerals, gold Breguet hands. Movm.: bridge movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, lever escapement, screw compensation balance.
The Delesserts were a well-known protestant family in Paris, who were active in the silk trade and in banking - they also established the first French cotton mill and founded the Caisse d’Epargne. The family owned some plots of land in the 16th arrondissement and donated it to the Protestant Church; the land was later used for the construction of the temple of Passy-Annonciation and adjacent Church buildings.
The first protestant members of the Delessert family emigrated from France to Switzerland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Jean-Jacques was born in Cossonay in the Vaud canton in 1690 and returned to France in 1721 to become a silk merchant. His son Etienne (1735-1816) settled in Paris, where he became a banker and founded one of the first insurance companies in France, while his brother Jules Paul Benjamin (1773-1847) was one of the founding members of the Caisse d’Epargne and remained its director until the end of his life.
François Delessert (1780-1868) was a banker like his father and his grandfather and was president of the Chambre de Commerce de Paris and also of the Caisse d’Epargne.
A boulevard in the XVIth arrondissement and a small road in the Xth arrondissement both bear the name Delessert.
Source: https://www.museeprotestant.org/de/notice/die-familie-delessert/ as of 10/07/2019
A quarter repeating pocket watch of historical interest, sold on November 28, 1838 to Monsieur François Delessert for 1000 Francs - with certificate no. 4562
Case: 18k gold, engine-turned, numbered and signed gold dome, pusher for repetition via pull-twist piston through the pendant. Dial: silver, engine-turned, radial Roman numerals, gold Breguet hands. Movm.: bridge movement, keywind, 2 hammers / 2 gongs, lever escapement, screw compensation balance.
The Delesserts were a well-known protestant family in Paris, who were active in the silk trade and in banking - they also established the first French cotton mill and founded the Caisse d’Epargne. The family owned some plots of land in the 16th arrondissement and donated it to the Protestant Church; the land was later used for the construction of the temple of Passy-Annonciation and adjacent Church buildings.
The first protestant members of the Delessert family emigrated from France to Switzerland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Jean-Jacques was born in Cossonay in the Vaud canton in 1690 and returned to France in 1721 to become a silk merchant. His son Etienne (1735-1816) settled in Paris, where he became a banker and founded one of the first insurance companies in France, while his brother Jules Paul Benjamin (1773-1847) was one of the founding members of the Caisse d’Epargne and remained its director until the end of his life.
François Delessert (1780-1868) was a banker like his father and his grandfather and was president of the Chambre de Commerce de Paris and also of the Caisse d’Epargne.
A boulevard in the XVIth arrondissement and a small road in the Xth arrondissement both bear the name Delessert.
Source: https://www.museeprotestant.org/de/notice/die-familie-delessert/ as of 10/07/2019
estimated
15.000—20.000 €
Price realized
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