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SUMMARY:a-20ct-gold-open-faced-extra-flat-ruby-cylinder-montre-mdaillon-wat
 ch-with-a-gold-chain-and-ratchet-key - Date de vente : 09/11/2025
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : A 20ct gold open-faced extra flat ruby cylinder M
 ontre Médaillon watch with a gold chain and ratchet key\n\ngilded movemen
 t\, ruby cylinder escapement\, gold three-arm balance with parachute suspe
 nsion\, blued steel hairspring\, extended blued steel regulation arm with 
 arc for dial aperture\, bottom plate numbered 5066\n\nsilver dial\, damier
  guilloché pattern\, satin finished chapter rings with crémaillère bord
 ers\, black Roman numerals and pearled minutes\, arc-form aperture for reg
 ulation\, gold Breguet hands\, angled cartouche signed Breguet\, numbered 
 dial back 5066\n\n20ct gold extra flat Joly case\, engine-turned back\, be
 zel and band à grains d’orge\, bayonet fitted back turning to reveal wi
 nding aperture\, concealed securing screw for case back dial side at X\, c
 ase back interior numbered 5066 B and 712\, case maker’s mark lozenge-sh
 aped cartouche with a bird and pellet above and below L J for Joly\, Paris
  Pegasus 2 assay in irregular hexagonal cartouche (second standard gold 84
 0/1000\, 1819-1838)\, pendant dial side with Paris Ox head assay (1822-183
 8) and rubbed assay to reverse\n\nMeasurements\n\ndiameter 31mm\n\ndepth i
 ncluding crystal 6.4mm\n\nlength of chain/key 142mm\n\nweight of watch app
 rox. 22g.\n\nweight of watch with chain/key 28.2g\n\nAccompaniments\n\nwit
 h a gold Breguet double-ended ratchet key with male/female squares and sho
 rt chain\, Breguet certificate no. 2640\, dated 5 March 1923\, a Breguet 2
 50th anniversary certificate and original red morocco leather presentation
  case\, the lid with gilt numbering 5066\, base with gilt oval stamp Bregu
 et 39\, Quai d’Horloge du Palais et 4 Place de la Bourse\, à Paris.\n\n
 The Breguet Archives note that three certificates have been issued for thi
 s watch\, nos. 1346\, 2626 and 2640. Originally sold to Monsieur Wenham in
  Russia on 8 December 1832\, the archives record that it was returned to B
 reguet for service on three occasions: first by le Comte de Fersen of Dres
 den in 1835\, then by Princess Soltykoff in 1851\, and finally by Monsieur
  Kotschoubey in 1859.\n\nJousselin & Brasch were a merchant and banking ho
 use established in St. Petersburg and are listed among the city’s princi
 pal firms in the 1835 General Mercantile Guild Almanac for the Austrian Em
 pire.1 They also acted as agents for Breguet in Russia. A series of docume
 nts published by Felipe Fernández-Armesto in Anuario de Estudios Atlánti
 cos 27 (1981) record their dealings with the Betancourt family: in 1822–
 23\, correspondence with Agustín de Betancourt concerning “certain gold
  watches supplied by the house of Breguet in Paris” (doc. 18\, p. 254)\;
  a receipt issued in St Petersburg on 4/16 August 1824 to Alfonso de Betan
 court for a Breguet gold watch valued at 2\,500 francs (doc. 19\, p. 257)\
 ; a power of attorney granted by Breguet in Paris\, 20 August 1824\, autho
 rising Jousselin & Brasch to collect amounts owed (doc. 20\, p. 258)\; and
  a further receipt signed in St Petersburg on 17/29 March 1825 acknowledgi
 ng payment by Madame de Betancourt for a Breguet gold watch (doc. 21\, p. 
 259).2 Their wider role as intermediaries for Breguet’s Russian clientel
 e is confirmed by the Breguet company archives: for example\, Breguet no. 
 3795 was delivered to Jousselin & Brasch for Prince Belosselsky on 11 Janu
 ary 1823\, and no. 4005 was sold via the firm to Prince Sapoukhin on 1 May
  1823.3\n\nTo protect French watchmakers from a surge of imported and ofte
 n counterfeit timepieces—despite a ban on foreign watch imports under th
 e law of 5 Brumaire Year V— two new special assay marks for watches were
  introduced from 19 September 1821 until 1838. These marks\, applied along
 side standard hallmarks\, aimed to curb the use of fake or stolen assay st
 amps\, particularly those originating from former French territories like 
 Switzerland. Comprising an Ox head for gold or crayfish for silver watches
 \, these marks were struck on the pendant\, dial side (standard hallmarks 
 continued to be applied to the inside case backs).4\n\n1 Franz B. Fray (co
 mp. and ed.)\, Allgemeiner Handlungs-Gremial Almanach für den österreich
 ischen Kaiserstaat. Jahrgang 1835 (Vienna\, 1835)\, 778–779.\n\n2 Ferná
 ndez-Armesto\, Felipe “Nueva aportación documental sobre Agustín de Be
 tancourt y Molina y su familia\,” Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 27 (19
 81)\, 239–259\, here docs. 18–21\, pp. 254–259.\n\n3 See Antiquorum 
 Geneva auctions 14 November 2004\, lot 83 and 18 October 1997\, lot 39.\n\
 n4 See: Fieggen\, M.\, French Precious Metal Hallmarks 1789 to date\, Pari
 s\, 2024\, pp. 56-57.
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