Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」

Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 35. CONTINENTAL  [ 歐洲大陸製]  | AN UNUSUAL GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED CYLINDER WATCH WITH DATE, COMPASS, AND MULTIPLE TIME ZONES  CIRCA 1790  [ 特別黃金雙錶盤懷錶備工字輪擒縱機芯、日期、指南針及不同時區顯示,年份約1790].

CONTINENTAL [ 歐洲大陸製] | AN UNUSUAL GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED CYLINDER WATCH WITH DATE, COMPASS, AND MULTIPLE TIME ZONES CIRCA 1790 [ 特別黃金雙錶盤懷錶備工字輪擒縱機芯、日期、指南針及不同時區顯示,年份約1790]

Lot Closed

June 16, 02:48 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

CONTINENTAL

[ 歐洲大陸製]


AN UNUSUAL GOLD DOUBLE DIALLED CYLINDER WATCH WITH DATE, COMPASS, AND MULTIPLE TIME ZONES

CIRCA 1790

[ 特別黃金雙錶盤懷錶備工字輪擒縱機芯、日期、指南針及不同時區顯示,年份約1790]


Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, flat three-arm balance

Dials: front - with aperture for visible balance surrounded by four subsidiary time dials for Le Caire with Turkish numerals, Paris with Arabic numerals, Pondicheri with Roman numerals and Cayenne with Arabic numerals, two further subsidiary dials for seconds and date combined with regulation indication (lacking one hand) • back dial - with compass on a polychrome enamel painted seascape with a ship in full sail, the sun overhead, marked to the edge of the dial Septent, Orient, Midi, Occident

Case: gold, double open faced, decoratively engraved bezels 


diameter 59.5mm


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