Lot Essay
The Breguet certificate accompanying this chronometer records that it was supplied to the Ministere de la Marine on December 26, 1823.
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A French mahogany two-day marine chronometer
BREGUET ET FILS, NO. 3199, THIRD SERIES, CIRCA 1823
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A French mahogany two-day marine chronometer
Breguet et Fils, No. 3199, third series, Circa 1823
The frosted silvered dial signed Breguet et fils, horgers de la Marine Royale and numbered No 3199, subsidary hours and minutes dial with blued steel hands (at XI), Roman hour numerals and Arabic ten minute intermarkers 60-10-20 et seque, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hands (at VI), main frame assembly carrying hour wheel arbor and twin barrel separately wound through the bottom of the bowl, gibbous-shape platform assembly numbered 67 carrying Earnshaw escapement and cut bimetallic balance numbered 77, with underslung grey finish steel helical balance spring and locking assembly operated through the bottom of the bowl, Breguet format spring detent with steel locking pallet, clamped to brass banking block, oval brass gimbal with bevelled inside top edge and with twin sprung brass locking arms, two-tier plain mahogany box, the top with hinged cover inset with diamond shape brass plaque inscribed N 3199 above glazed viewing port, external rectangular shape brass drop handles, double action lock (numbered 482); Breguet certificate.
94 mm. dial diam., 210 mm. wide box. (2)
Breguet et Fils, No. 3199, third series, Circa 1823
The frosted silvered dial signed Breguet et fils, horgers de la Marine Royale and numbered No 3199, subsidary hours and minutes dial with blued steel hands (at XI), Roman hour numerals and Arabic ten minute intermarkers 60-10-20 et seque, subsidiary seconds dial with blued steel hands (at VI), main frame assembly carrying hour wheel arbor and twin barrel separately wound through the bottom of the bowl, gibbous-shape platform assembly numbered 67 carrying Earnshaw escapement and cut bimetallic balance numbered 77, with underslung grey finish steel helical balance spring and locking assembly operated through the bottom of the bowl, Breguet format spring detent with steel locking pallet, clamped to brass banking block, oval brass gimbal with bevelled inside top edge and with twin sprung brass locking arms, two-tier plain mahogany box, the top with hinged cover inset with diamond shape brass plaque inscribed N 3199 above glazed viewing port, external rectangular shape brass drop handles, double action lock (numbered 482); Breguet certificate.
94 mm. dial diam., 210 mm. wide box. (2)