BREGUET. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE, 18K GOLD QUARTER REPEATING HUNTER CASED WATCH WITH DAYS OF THE WEEK AND DATE CALENDAR, RUBY CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT, SHORT CHAIN AND KEY

BREGUET. AN EXTREMELY FINE AND VERY RARE, 18K GOLD QUARTER REPEATING HUNTER CASED WATCH WITH DAYS OF THE WEEK AND DATE CALENDAR, RUBY CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT, SHORT CHAIN AND KEY
SIGNED BREGUET ET FILS, 'MONTRE PLAT A REPETITION ET A QUANTIEME', NO. 2462, CASE NO. 3057, SOLD ON 12 OCTOBER 1811 TO LE PRINCE D'ESPAGNE A VALENCAY FOR THE SUM OF 3600 FRANCS
Movement: manual, jewelled to the centre, ruby cylinder escapement, pare-chute suspension, repeating with a single hammer on a single gong activated by depressing a pull-and-twist piston in the pendant
Dial: silver with large subsidiary date dial, further subsidiary dials for the seconds and days of the week, signed
Case: no. 3057 by Pierre Benjamin Tavernier, engine turned ‘grains d’orge’, numbered and punched with Tavernier’s mark, 37.5 mm. diam., hinged gold cuvette
With: Breguet Certificate no. 3149, dated 24 April 1967, gold Breguet short chain and key