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MEDAILLON A TACT Very fine, rare and large, 20K gold and enamel, set with pearls and diamonds, hunting cased «médaillon à tact» key-winding, round-shaped, “forme collier” pocket watch. Blue flinqué enamel (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) with sunburst effect (eccentric ellipse pattern) revolving case-back, with arrow “à tact” hand set with rosecut diamonds; cover decorated en suite with central sunburst effect; both with finely reeded rims; band set with 24 touch pieces (including the pendant), 12 pearls for the hours and 12 seed gold for the halfhours; detachable polished cuvette with apertures for winding, setting, regulating and the dial. Brand
Le Roy, au Palais Royal No. 88
Model
“Médaillon à tact”
Year
Circa 1805
Movement
3381
Caliber
19’’’, (ebauche No. 860), gilded brass, with going barrel, cylinder escapement, monometallic balance (probably in gold) and blued steel flat hairspring
Dimensions
62 mm
Signature
Signed Case and Movement numbered
Accessories 18K yellow gold chain and gold winding-key C 3-8 D 3-01 M 3*
CHF 12,000 – 18,000 • HKD 96,000 – 144,000 • USD 12,000 – 18,000 Designed by Breguet, few examples of this type of a watch were made by Breguet. ‘Breguet classified his souscription calibers as ‘petite’, ‘moyenne’ and ‘grande’. Out of about 915 souscription type watches that Breguet made, only about 35 ‘petites’ are known to exist. They were the most expensive, averaging about SFr. 1700. Breguet introduced them in the spring of 1799. Le Roy Hologer de S:A:I et R Madame à Paris, is also famous for producing this type of pendant watch using similar Breguet soucription calibers. See Antiquorum catalogue “L’art de L’horologerie en France du XVe au XXe siècle” Geneva 14 November, 1993, Lot 131, 132, 133. SESSION 1
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