Breguet. An important and fine 18K gold openface keyless one-minute tourbillon watch

SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 1389, CIRCA 1930

細節

Breguet. An important and fine 18K gold openface keyless one-minute tourbillon watch
Signed Breguet, No. 1389, circa 1930
With highly jewelled nickel finished movement, bimetallic three arm one minute tourbillon carriage, glazed dust cover, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, blued steel Breguet hands, subsidiary seconds, the plain matt polished case with finely chased and engraved foliage decorated band, together with Breguet original fitted presentation box, case and movement numbered, dial signed and numbered
57 mm. diam.

來源

Monsieur Jean Dollfus thence by direct descent.

拍品專文

The tourbillon was supplied by James Pellaton (1873-1954) who, like his father Albert Pellaton-Fabre (1770-1849), was an eminent maker of tourbillons in the nineteenth century.
James Pellaton made the smallest tourbillon in 1923 which was only succeeded in size in circa 1950.
A similar tourbillon is illustrated in Le Tourbillon by Reinhard Meis, p. 163.

It appears that this watch was made for Monsieur Jean Dollfus in circa 1930 and has remained in the family since.
Monsieur Dollfus was a passionate collector of Breguet watches and did not shy back from special orders for him. Another watch from his original collection, an unique 18 carat white gold tonneau-shaped instantaneous perpetual calendar wristwatch with phases of the moon made by Breguet in circa 1929, was sold at Christie's Geneva on 17 November 1997 as lot 198.