Montre à Tact A remarkable, rare pocket watch "Montre à Tact" with enamel...
Gehäuse
18 K gold, smooth on the front, guilloche pattern on the reverse, applied enamel cartouches with Roman numerals, single hand with window for hour display, the band with raised knobs to "feel" the time, case maker's punch mark "JS".|Very good.
Zifferblatt
Enamel.|Very good.
Werk
Bridge movement, keywind, English lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance.|Very good, capable of running.
WERKNR:4977
caseId:9887
dimension:55 mm
circa:1870
weight:131
country:England/Switzerland
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Breguet was the first maker to come up with the design for the "Montre à Tact" watches - he sold the first one early in 1799 to Madame Betancourt, the wife of his best friend. He continued producing the watches in different variations, some with quite large touch pieces (like this watch) and some with small ones. The price for these watches that Breguet created for the wealthiest of his customers was between 1,500 and 3,000 francs. This was a truly enormous sum of money in the early 19th century, nevertheless the watches were highly sought after at the time. One of the reasons for their popularity was that at the time it was considered quite unseemly to read the time in public; these expensive pieces made it possible to tell the time without taking the watch out of ones pocket. Breguet remained almost the only one to create this kind of watch.
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Gehäuse
18 K gold, smooth on the front, guilloche pattern on the reverse, applied enamel cartouches with Roman numerals, single hand with window for hour display, the band with raised knobs to "feel" the time, case maker's punch mark "JS".|Very good.
Zifferblatt
Enamel.|Very good.
Werk
Bridge movement, keywind, English lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance.|Very good, capable of running.
WERKNR:4977
caseId:9887
dimension:55 mm
circa:1870
weight:131
country:England/Switzerland
originalbox:
originalcertificate:
guaranteecard:
servicecard:
extract:
accessories:
clasp:
Breguet was the first maker to come up with the design for the "Montre à Tact" watches - he sold the first one early in 1799 to Madame Betancourt, the wife of his best friend. He continued producing the watches in different variations, some with quite large touch pieces (like this watch) and some with small ones. The price for these watches that Breguet created for the wealthiest of his customers was between 1,500 and 3,000 francs. This was a truly enormous sum of money in the early 19th century, nevertheless the watches were highly sought after at the time. One of the reasons for their popularity was that at the time it was considered quite unseemly to read the time in public; these expensive pieces made it possible to tell the time without taking the watch out of ones pocket. Breguet remained almost the only one to create this kind of watch.
