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BREGUET ET FILS PARIS MONTRE SIMPLE, NO. 1235 MANUFACTURED IN 1804 A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE ...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:20,000.00 - 26,000.00 USD
BREGUET ET FILS PARIS MONTRE SIMPLE, NO. 1235 MANUFACTURED IN 1804 A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE ...
BREGUET ET FILS
PARIS
MONTRE SIMPLE, NO. 1235 MANUFACTURED IN 1804
A FINE AND RARE GOLD OPENFACE RUBY CYLINDER WATCH SOLD TO JAMES WATT ON THE 14 FLOREAL AN 12
GILT NOUVEAU CALIBRE MOVEMENT, BREGUET TYPE RUBY CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT, PLAIN THREE-ARM BALANCE, BIMETALLIC COMPENSATION CURB, PARACHUTE SHOCK-RESIST SYSTEM, GILT CUVETTE, WHITE ENAMEL DIAL SECURED BY A POLISHED STEEL SCREW, BLACK ROMAN NUMERALS, OUTER RING WITH MINUTES DIVISIONS, BLUED-STEEL HANDS, SECRET SIGNATURE BELOW 12 O'CLOCK, ENGINE-TURNED CASE CENTERED BY MONOGRAMMED CARTOUCHE (JW FOR JAMES WATT), REEDED BAND, WITH GOLD BREGUET-STYLE CHAIN AND KEY AND LATER BREGUET LEATHER BOX SIGNED ON MOVEMENT, CASE AND DIAL, STAMPED INSIDE CASE WITH MAKER'S MARK
AND NUMBERED 1235/307
DIAMETER 61 MM
CHF 30,000-40,000
$ 20,000-26,000
THIS WATCH IS ACCOMPANIED
BY A BREGUET CERTIFICATE DATED FROM 1995 CONFIRMING ITS MANUFACTURE AND SUBSEQUENT SALE ON 14 FLOREAL AN 12 TO JAMES WATT.
JAMES WATT WAS BORN IN GREENOCK, ENGLAND IN 1736. DUE TO POOR HEALTH, HE HAD LITTLE EDUCATION UNTIL
HE WENT TO LONDON TO BE
A MATHEMATICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER. HE LATER RETURNED
TO GLASGOW WHERE HE WORKED AT THE UNIVERSITY UNTIL 1776 WHEN JOHN ANDERSEN ASKED WATT
TO REPAIR A STEAM ENGINE
HE HAD ACQUIRED. HE THEN PERFECTED AND EVENTUALLY STARTED PRODUCING THESE IMPROVED STEAM ENGINES THAT WOULD BE USED IN
A HUGE VARIETY OF FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING WEAVING, WATER PUMPING AND EVEN MARINE PROPULSION. HIS WORK WOULD LAY THE STEPPING STONES
OF A NEW ERA: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. IT SEEMS LOGICAL THAT THE PATH OF THESE
TWO GENIUSES, WATT AND BREGUET, WOULD CROSS
AS BOTH OF THEM INVENTED OBJECTS THAT WOULD BECOME INDISPENSABLE. AS A WEAlTHY MAN IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT
HE WOULD CHOOSE A WATCH MAKER THAT WOULD
BE REFLECTIVE OF HIS MIND: INVENTIVE, USEFUL AND REVOLUTIONARY, HIS CHOICE
OF A BREGUET WATCH IS NOT SURPRISING. WATT RETIRED
IN 1800 AND PASSED AWAY
IN 1819.
property of
a spanish collector
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