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With Breguet Certificate No. 3264 dated 15 February 1971 confirming that the present hour and quarter hour repeating watch with jump hour hand, gold dial, engine-turned gold case engraved with escutcheon and letter F, was sold to Monsieur Frantzins on 21 Floréal An 13, 11 May 1805, for the sum of Francs 2,300.
Watch no. 1543 incorporates several of Abraham-Louis' numerous inventions, starting with the repeating mechanism which marked a turning point in the history of watchmaking. Introduced in 1783, Breguet's "ressort-timbre", a wire gong surrounding the movement which replaced the hitherto used bell, improved not only the quality of the sound but especially helped to reduce the thickness of a watch considerably. The repeating push-piece concealed in the band is another of Breguet's invention. Generally used after 1800, the system is both elegant and reliable. The ruby cylinder movement is fitted with a "suspension élastique", Breguet's ingenious elastic balance suspension also known as pare-chute, the ancestor of the shock-protection devices conceived to protect the pivots from blows. Breguet's jumping hour system is designed in such way that the hour hand remains immobile until the minute hand passes over XII and then jumps precisely to the next hour. The finely engine-turned case features a slim bezel, another of Breguet's signature features, allowing the entire dial to be seen. The dial is of engine-turned gold, a material used by Breguet on only one in fifteen of his watches. It has the usual secret signatures found on metal dials, either side of the 'XII'. The signature is particularly crisp on this dial, possibly because gold dials do not tarnish and therefore do not need cleaning very often.
Watch no. 1543 incorporates several of Abraham-Louis' numerous inventions, starting with the repeating mechanism which marked a turning point in the history of watchmaking. Introduced in 1783, Breguet's "ressort-timbre", a wire gong surrounding the movement which replaced the hitherto used bell, improved not only the quality of the sound but especially helped to reduce the thickness of a watch considerably. The repeating push-piece concealed in the band is another of Breguet's invention. Generally used after 1800, the system is both elegant and reliable. The ruby cylinder movement is fitted with a "suspension élastique", Breguet's ingenious elastic balance suspension also known as pare-chute, the ancestor of the shock-protection devices conceived to protect the pivots from blows. Breguet's jumping hour system is designed in such way that the hour hand remains immobile until the minute hand passes over XII and then jumps precisely to the next hour. The finely engine-turned case features a slim bezel, another of Breguet's signature features, allowing the entire dial to be seen. The dial is of engine-turned gold, a material used by Breguet on only one in fifteen of his watches. It has the usual secret signatures found on metal dials, either side of the 'XII'. The signature is particularly crisp on this dial, possibly because gold dials do not tarnish and therefore do not need cleaning very often.