Beschreibung:

BREGUET. AN EXCEPTIONAL, UNIQUE AND HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT SILVER 8-DAY HUMP-BACK MONTRE DE CARROSSE WITH HALF-QUARTER REPEATING, ALARM, QUADRUPLE DIGITAL CALENDAR, AGE AND PHASES OF THE MOON, TRAVELLING CASE AND ORIGINAL KEY, MADE FOR THE QUEEN OF NAPLES
SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 2655, MADE FOR THE QUEEN OF NAPLES AND SOLD TO HER IN 1812
BREGUET. AN EXCEPTIONAL, UNIQUE AND HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT SILVER 8-DAY HUMP-BACK MONTRE DE CARROSSE WITH HALF-QUARTER REPEATING, ALARM, QUADRUPLE DIGITAL CALENDAR, AGE AND PHASES OF THE MOON, TRAVELLING CASE AND ORIGINAL KEY, MADE FOR THE QUEEN OF NAPLES SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 2655, MADE FOR THE QUEEN OF NAPLES AND SOLD TO HER IN 1812 The 4-pillar circular gilt brass movement with off-set winding to the going barrel and with ratchet set-up and bridged open spring barrels for the repeating and alarm mounted on the back plate, the plate also cut to reveal a transitional form of Breguet's straight-line lever escapement, plain three-arm balance with parachute suspension and regulator to the blued steel spiral balance spring with terminal curve, the repeating and alarm sounded by three hammers on three rounded rectangular-sectioned steel gongs, Breguet's "rouleaux de quantième" calendar work driven from the motion work and mounted below on the dial plate, the silver dial with roman numerals and dot minute markers, blued steel Breguet moon hands, engine turned centre with subsidiary dials for alarm setting, and an aperture for phases and age of the moon, signed Breguet et Fils on an applied gold oval cartouche, set within a finely engine turned gilt dial mask with off-set winding hole and four apertures indicating day, date, month and year, numbered below on an applied gold cartouche No. 2655 , the arched case with 7-knuckle hinged doors, the front bevel glazed, the back Paris hallmarked for medium sized, first standard silver, and stamped with the case makers initials PBT for Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier 1809-1819, quadruple stranded silver linked carrying chains with a further double stranded chain on a slider for the silver double-ended Breguet ratchet key, the pull wound alarm chain and alarm hand setting to the right side, and a sliding shutter to the left side for time hand setting, with pull repeat chain underneath, the whole raised on four sconce feet, with contemporary silk lined brown leather covered travelling case; case stamped PBT for Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier, dial signed Breguet et Fils and numbered 2655 15.8 cm. high, 13 cm. wide and 4.8 cm. deep