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拍品專文
This superbly fine Art Deco jump hour watch combines features that, to date, have only been seen in one other of Breguet's known dress watches – a related and almost identical watch, No. 1622. In 1928 that watch sold for the impressive amount of 14'100 French Francs.
It is exceptionally rare to find a watch with perpetual calendar with ‘digital’ or linear display visible through a triple window opening in the silver dial, an arrangement hardly ever seen in any watches from the period. During the "Roaring Twenties", pocket and wristwatches fitted with this unusual display were made by several of the very best makers, including Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Cartier and Patek Philippe, but then only in very small numbers.
Furthermore, the present watch is preserved in very good, original condition, an extremely desirable collector's item for the aficionado of rare Art Deco timepieces.
The first jump hour pocket watches appeared in the early 19th century but became particularly fashionable during the Art Deco period. Their clean, uncluttered layout, displaying the actual hour and minutes and, more rarely, the calendar indications through small apertures, harmonized perfectly with the Art Deco style, seen as elegant, functional, and ultra-modern.
It is exceptionally rare to find a watch with perpetual calendar with ‘digital’ or linear display visible through a triple window opening in the silver dial, an arrangement hardly ever seen in any watches from the period. During the "Roaring Twenties", pocket and wristwatches fitted with this unusual display were made by several of the very best makers, including Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Cartier and Patek Philippe, but then only in very small numbers.
Furthermore, the present watch is preserved in very good, original condition, an extremely desirable collector's item for the aficionado of rare Art Deco timepieces.
The first jump hour pocket watches appeared in the early 19th century but became particularly fashionable during the Art Deco period. Their clean, uncluttered layout, displaying the actual hour and minutes and, more rarely, the calendar indications through small apertures, harmonized perfectly with the Art Deco style, seen as elegant, functional, and ultra-modern.