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A RARE RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND GILT-LACQUERED 'JUMP HOUR' NIGHT TIMEPIECE WITH DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT
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A RARE RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND GILT-LACQUERED 'JUMP HOUR' NIGHT TIMEPIECE WITH DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT

FATTON, ELEVE DE BREGUET, LONDON. CIRCA 1820

Details
A RARE RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND GILT-LACQUERED 'JUMP HOUR' NIGHT TIMEPIECE WITH DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT
FATTON, ELEVE DE BREGUET, LONDON. CIRCA 1820
CASE: of rectangular form, with gold-lacquered panels to top and all sides, the top with foliate-cast handle rising from lion heads, with engine-turned hinged chimney cover behind, the sides with mounts of owls within bellflower wreaths and above mer-lion and mer-unicorn mounts, the front with conforming mer-lion and mer-unicorn flanking a suit of armour, above stipple-grounded gallery centred by a relief-cast rose flanked by oar and trident, with matching sides and rear and all corners cast with dolphins, with acanthus-cast moulding and rectangular plinth below, on large bun feet DIAL: with hinged convex glass to ormolu bezel cast with signs of the zodiac on a finely matted ground,pierced and gilded chapter ring applied to a frosted glass ring, engine-turned ormolu centre with oval signature reserve 'FATTON/Eleve de Breguet/No.32/LONDON', gilt spade hands (the hour hand jumping at half hourly intervals) MOVEMENT: three-quarter circular plates positioned behind the engine-turned dial centre, eight day single going barrel with double wheel duplex escapement, split bimetallic balance with segmental compensation weights, the front plate numbered '32', the back plate also signed 'FATTON/ Elève de Breguet/London/No.32', with candleholder positioned behind the movement, a sprung bracket to one side for now lacking 'magazine' for candles
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high, handle down; 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sotheby's Geneva, 26 November 1982, lot 37.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Frédéric-Louis Fatton was one of Abraham-Louis Breguet's most talented watchmakers and appears to have acted as a representative for him in London, as a Breguet certificate of 1818 states: 'In the case of damage to one of my watches, the owner may apply to the following:...- in London, M. Fatton, New Bond Street 92' (see E. Breguet, Breguet, Watchmakers since 1775, Paris, 1997, p. 337). In conjunction with Breguet, Fatton developed the first inking chronograph (subsequently known as the 'Fatton' chronograph).

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