A very rare French silver open-faced key-wound quarter repeating pocket watch with a double-wheel... A very rare French silver open-faced key-wound quarter repeating pocket watch with a double-wheel Debaufre-type escapement By Louis Tavernier, Paris, circa 1810 The case with plain band, ring pendant and glass covers, push/repeat at 2 o'clock, with silver engine-turned dial with Roman chapters, enclosing an engine-turned centre with small rectangular signature block beneath the XII signed L. TAVERNIER, blued steel Breguet moon hands, the gilt Lepine calibre movement, plain steel three-armed balance, sprung 'parachute' balance jewel, quarter repeat on two polished steel gongs of rectangular section 53 mm diam. Louis Tavernier (1754-1840), was the son of the renoned watchmaker Jean-Louis Tavernier and worked closely with Abraham-Louis Breguet. He is recorded as Mâitre in 1788, appointed Horologer du duc d'Orleans in 1790, he was at Rue Richelieu and was succeeded by Hury in 1820. Debaufre-type frictional rest escapements in a Lepine calibre are extremely rare as usually they are found only in a full-plate movement. Here, in its quality of design and execution, Tavernier has produced a masterpiece to parallel the work of Breguet, in whose circle he worked.
A very rare French silver open-faced key-wound quarter repeating pocket watch with a double-wheel... A very rare French silver open-faced key-wound quarter repeating pocket watch with a double-wheel Debaufre-type escapement By Louis Tavernier, Paris, circa 1810 The case with plain band, ring pendant and glass covers, push/repeat at 2 o'clock, with silver engine-turned dial with Roman chapters, enclosing an engine-turned centre with small rectangular signature block beneath the XII signed L. TAVERNIER, blued steel Breguet moon hands, the gilt Lepine calibre movement, plain steel three-armed balance, sprung 'parachute' balance jewel, quarter repeat on two polished steel gongs of rectangular section 53 mm diam. Louis Tavernier (1754-1840), was the son of the renoned watchmaker Jean-Louis Tavernier and worked closely with Abraham-Louis Breguet. He is recorded as Mâitre in 1788, appointed Horologer du duc d'Orleans in 1790, he was at Rue Richelieu and was succeeded by Hury in 1820. Debaufre-type frictional rest escapements in a Lepine calibre are extremely rare as usually they are found only in a full-plate movement. Here, in its quality of design and execution, Tavernier has produced a masterpiece to parallel the work of Breguet, in whose circle he worked.
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