Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 539. A RARE AND FINE GOLD QUARTER REPEATING CALENDAR CYLINDER WATCH WITH INDICATIONS FOR DATE, MONTH AND EQUATION OF TIME CIRCA 1820, NO. 6980 [ 罕有黃金二問日曆懷錶備日期、月份及時間等式顯示，年份約1820，編號6980].

Charles Oudin, Eléve de Breguet, Palais Royal

A RARE AND FINE GOLD QUARTER REPEATING CALENDAR CYLINDER WATCH WITH INDICATIONS FOR DATE, MONTH AND EQUATION OF TIME CIRCA 1820, NO. 6980 [ 罕有黃金二問日曆懷錶備日期、月份及時間等式顯示，年份約1820，編號6980]

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Charles Oudin, Eléve de Breguet, Palais Royal

A RARE AND FINE GOLD QUARTER REPEATING CALENDAR CYLINDER WATCH WITH INDICATIONS FOR DATE, MONTH AND EQUATION OF TIME

CIRCA 1820, NO. 6980

[ 罕有黃金二問日曆懷錶備日期、月份及時間等式顯示，年份約1820，編號6980]

• Movement: gilded, cylinder escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, ruby endstone, free standing barrel, two polished steel hammers repeating on gongs mounted to the movement edge, the repeating work visible to the backplate, gilt-metal hinged cuvette signed and numbered Charles Oudin E^ve de Breguet, Palais Royal N.52, no. 6980

• Dial: silver engine-turned, satin finished chapter rings for Roman numerals, outer minutes and inner sector for equation of time, apertures for date and month, blued steel hands, signed Ch^sOudin

• Case: pink gold, engine-turned case back, milled band and bezels, plunge pendant for repetition with locking slide above 11 o'clock, concealed slide beneath bezel between 10 and 11 o'clock for date adjustment, case maker's mark FHM incuse and numbered 34048 and 1971

diameter 59mm

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Antiquorum Geneva, 14 November 1993, lot 194

Charles Oudin, a gifted and innovative watch and clockmaker, was a pupil of Abraham-Louis Breguet. Oudin was particularly skilled in the production of watches with Equation of Time indication and developed a form of the complication that could be incorporated into Breguet's souscription watches. By 1805 he was established on his own at the Palais Royal, Galerie de Pierre. In 1819, an Equation of Time watch by Oudin was referenced at the Paris Exhibition.