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SUMMARY:a-gold-open-faced-montre-rptition-perptuelle-self-winding-watch-wit
 h-state-of-wind-indication-quarter-repeating-toc - Date de vente : 09/11/2
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DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : A gold open-faced montre répétition perpétuell
 e self-winding watch with state-of-wind indication quarter repeating à to
 c\n\n22’’’ gilded movement\, lever escapement\, dual mainspring barr
 els\, five wheel train\, wolf’s tooth winding\, steel lever with inset r
 uby pallets\, brass escape wheel with upright teeth\, two-arm bi-metallic 
 chronometer-style balance with sliding curved trapezoid weights\, four mea
 n-time screws\, steel balance spring with Breguet overcoil\, both pivots w
 ith parachute suspension\, large platinum broad crescent-shaped perpétuel
 le weight mounted to the backplate and buffering off two long springs moun
 ted to the edge of the movement\, single hammer quarter repeating à toc\,
  movement side beneath VII o’clock with perpétuelle weight locking slid
 e engraved M/A for Marche/Arret\, further slide beneath IIII o’clock for
  regulation\, movement edge signed and numbered Breguet No. 2926\n\nsilver
  engine-turned dial\, clous-de-Paris guilloché centre\, twin satin finish
 ed chapter rings with black Roman numerals and pearled minutes\, fan-form 
 sector for state of wind indication calibrated for 60 hours\, subsidiary s
 econds at 6 o’clock\, each with damier patterned engine-turning\, créma
 illère borders\, satin finished angled cartouche beneath VI signed Bregue
 t et Fils\n\ngold collier-form case\, the back and band engine-turned à g
 rains d’orge\, small monogrammed cartouche to centre\, plain ring pendan
 t with quarter-turn piston repeat\, additional later glazed case back\n\nM
 easurements\n\ndiameter 51mm\n\ndepth 19.5mm (with glazed back)\n\nweight 
 138.2g (with glazed back)\n\nAccompaniments\n\nwith a Breguet 250th annive
 rsary certificate\n\nGabriel-Julien Ouvrard\, French Banker\, 1816.\n\n---
 --\n\nBaron Sandberg C.B.E.\n\nAntiquorum Geneva\, The Sandberg Watch Coll
 ection\, 31 March – 1 April 2001\, lot 184.\n\nChristie’s Geneva\, 16 
 May 2016\, lot 125.\n\nCamerer Cuss\, Terence\, The Sandberg Watch Collect
 ion\, 1998\, Geneva: Antiquorum\, pp. 172-173\, cat. 115.\n\nOn his return
  to France from exile in Switzerland\, Breguet recognised the increasing i
 mportance of the new banking elite and focused his attention on courting t
 his new trend-setting social stratum. Between 1798 and 1809\, Breguet sold
  around 60 watches to prominent bankers.1 A slight pause brought about by 
 the political uncertainties of the period followed\, as years of war\, occ
 upation\, and reparations encouraged a more measured expression of wealth 
 in French society\, before the bankers returned as major purchasers again 
 from 1815.2\n\nAmong the most influential of Breguet’s banking clients w
 as Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard (1770–1846)\, a financier whose career spanned
  the Revolutionary\, Napoleonic\, and Restoration eras. In addition to the
  perpétuelle offered here\, Ouvrard had acquired a ruby cylinder repeatin
 g watch from Breguet in 1801 (no. 680). Born in the Vendée\, the son of a
  paper-mill owner\, he entered trade in Nantes as a young man and rose wit
 h extraordinary speed through naval and military supply contracts. By the 
 close of the Directory he was at the centre of some of the largest financi
 al operations in France\, closely tied to the Bank of France and the Compa
 gnie des Négociants Réunis\, and by the early 19th century was counted a
 mong the wealthiest men in Europe. His fortunes\, however\, faltered under
  Napoleon: imprisoned for debt in 1809 and further compromised by involvem
 ent in clandestine peace negotiations with England\, he spent the later ye
 ars of the Empire in political disgrace and financial difficulty.\n\nThe R
 estoration brought a return to influence. In 1816\, acting as an adviser t
 o Prime Minister the duc de Richelieu\, Ouvrard helped to secure a 100-mil
 lion-franc annuity that allowed France to meet reparations and accelerated
  the withdrawal of occupying troops. In that same year he purchased the pr
 esent watch - a Breguet perpétuelle\, at the time one of the most expensi
 ve and prestigious models offered by the firm – as well as the Château 
 de la Chaussée at Bougival\, a distinguished estate on the outskirts of P
 aris that gave architectural expression to his recovered prestige.\n\nAlth
 ough subsequent overextension in foreign ventures led to scandal\, bankrup
 tcy\, and renewed imprisonment\, Ouvrard remained a figure of lasting cons
 equence. He died in London in 1846.\n\n1 Breguet\, Emmanuel\, Breguet Watc
 hmakers since 1775\, Revised and Expanded Edition\, Swan Éditeur\, 2016\,
  pp. 185-186.\n\n2 Ibid.
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