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Breguet No. 2539 "Montre plate à répétition des demi-quarts". A very fine, rare and historically important 18K gold openface half-quarter repeating cylinder watch with secret portrait compartment, sold to Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese
SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 2539, CASE NO. 1838, SOLD TO PRINCESS PAULINE BORGHESE ON 25 OCTOBER 1813 FOR THE SUM OF 2,400 FRANCS
Breguet No. 2539 "Montre plate à répétition des demi-quarts". A very fine, rare and historically important 18K gold openface half-quarter repeating cylinder watch with secret portrait compartment, sold to Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese Signed Breguet, No. 2539, case no. 1838, sold to Princess Pauline Borghese on 25 October 1813 for the sum of 2,400 Francs Gilded ruby cylinder movement, plain three arm brass balance with pare-chute suspension on the top pivot, blued steel flat balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator, half-quarter repeating on two polished steel hammers onto a gong, gold cuvette secured by a screw, silver engine-turned dial, Roman numerals on blank chapter ring, remnants of the secret signature 2539 Breguet visible to both sides of XII, blued steel Breguet hands, engine-turned sunk eccentric subsidiary seconds, large engine-turned circular case ingeniously fitted with a secret hinged inner gold cover devised to contain a portrait, hinged back cover opened by a push-piece in the band, quarter repeating pull-twist push-piece in the pendant, case no. 1838 by Jean-Louis Joly, cuvette signed Breguet No. 2539, dial signed Breguet et Fils and with secret signature to both sides of XII 58 mm. diam.