Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」
Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」
Lot Closed
June 16, 03:08 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
OUDIN, ÉLÈVE DE BREGUET
[Oudin,寶璣學徒]
A RARE SILVER MONTRE À TACT WATCH
CIRCA 1810, NO. 272
[罕有銀製觸覺懷錶,年份約1810,編號272]
• Movement: cylinder escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, large central barrel with winding sleeve, sleeve for handset adjacent to barrel, signed and numbered J. B. Oudin à Paris, no. 272
• Dial: small off-set silver engine-turned dial, satin-finished chapter ring with Roman numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel moon hands, the dial surrounded by a polished silver cuvette with apertures for the dial, winding, handset and regulation and signed and numbered Oudin élève de Mr Breguet à Paris, no. 272
• Case: silver, the front with radiating concentric rings of alternating polished and milled finishes, the case back similarly decorated with large applied arrow revolving for à tact indication, engine-turned band with large touch pins, silver pendant and bow, case numbered 3149 and with Paris control marks from 1793 and P.B.T. beneath a triangle within a lozenge-shaped cartouche for Pierre-Benjamin Tavernier
diameter 52mm
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Charles Oudin, a gifted and innovative watch and clockmaker, was a pupil of Abraham-Louis Breguet. Oudin was particularly skilled in the production of watches with Equation of Time indication and developed a form of the complication that could be incorporated into Breguet's souscription watches. By 1805 he was established on his own at the Palais Royal, Galerie de Pierre. In 1819, an Equation of Time watch by Oudin was referenced at the Paris Exhibition.
The present watch closely follows a version of Breguet's 'Montre de Souscription à Tact', for an example of which, see lot 29 in this auction.