BREGUET, GILT BRONZE GRANDE AND PETITE SONNERIE STRIKING AND QUARTER REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR, MOON PHASES AND ALARM, ORIGINAL BOX AND WINDING KEY, NO. 3445, ‘PENDULE PORTATIVE À ALMANACH’

CIRCA: Constructed between 1819 and 1829, sold to Comte Merystas Potocki on 19th January 1831 for 5600 Francs
CASE MATERIAL: Gilt bronze, cast and chased in the Empire style with fluted pilasters and acanthus capitals, the inverted breakfront cornices decorated with anthemia cast in low relief, on milled bun feet, engine-turned top with oval viewing glass and facetted handle pivoting in lion head mounts, ball finials to the angles, with foliate pierced and engraved base plate
CASE SIZE: Height 15.5 cm, width 10.4 cm, depth 7.4 cm
DIAL: Silver engine-turned, Roman chapter ring, blued Breguet hands, smaller alarm hand, enamelled moon phase with moon’s age on the edge, sonnerie adjustment levers on a sector above engraved quarters/quarters et Heures and Sonnerie/Silence, on a gilt engine-turned mask with apertures below for day, date and month
MOVEMENT: Large single going barrel for the going and striking trains, large gilt platform lever escapement with compensated two-arm balance, pare-chute to the top pivot, blued steel balance spring, the platform engraved ‘M de Pens, Marquis de Morsan à Morsan s/Eure, Bienne’, backplate with the racks and snail striking system on two gongs, pull-wind alarm, the seat plate signed and numbered
FUNCTIONS: Grande and petite sonnerie striking, quarter repeating, alarm, calendar, moon phases
WITH: Original red leather and gilt-tooled fitted Breguet travelling box and double-ended key, Breguet Certificate No. 4630 dated 14 September 2020

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