BREGUET. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE, 18K GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET A TACT PENDANT WATCH WITH RUBY CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT

BREGUET. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE, 18K GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET A TACT PENDANT WATCH WITH RUBY CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT
SIGNED BREGUET, 'MONTRE OR A TACT EMAILLEE ET PERLES POUR TACT', NO. 2304, CASE NO. 2993, SOLD ON 31 JANUARY 1810 TO MME. AWILS FOR THE SUM OF 1500 FRANCS
Movement: Manual, central barrel, ruby cylinder escapement, pare-chute suspension
Dial: Small, silvered, eccentric
Case: No. 2993 by Pierre Benjamin Tavernier, overlaid with translucent grey enamel over an engine turned ground, gold paillone decoration, the front cover with aperture for the dial, the back with arrow hand for the à tact, pearl touch pieces on the band, approx. 38.5 mm. diam., numbered and punched with Tavernier’s mark, gold cuvette secured by two screws
With: Breguet Certificate no. 3093, dated 21 May 1965

Provenance
A similar watch, no. 1099, is illustrated in: A Voyage Through Time - The Masis Collection of Horological Masterpieces, Richard Chadwick, 2020, pp. 400-401.
Two further examples are illustrated in: Breguet, Emmanuel Breguet, 1997, pp. 138–139 and pp. 144-145.
Another, No. 960, is illustrated in: Breguet, un apogée de l’horlogerie européenne, Louvre, 2009, p.141.