Breguet, No. 5117: A fine and rare silver hour and quarter striking and repeating alarm duplex coachwatch with original leather covered and numbered outer case and supporting bracket, the signed engine-turned open-face silver case with gold hinges, signed white enamel dial with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, brass alarm hand, strike/silent lever at 3, the four-train movement signed and numbered, the cut bimetallic three arm balance with gold set-screws, duplex escapement ruby and endstone, the escapement mounted in seperate potence, striking the four quarters and the hours on two gongs, repeating in the same manner operated by a pushbutton in the bow, the alarm ringing on a bell in the case, with length of silver chain and original ratchet key, with a copy dated 1976 of the original purchase certificate stating that the watch was sold to Lord Seymour on the 21st February, 1833

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Breguet, No. 5117: A fine and rare silver hour and quarter striking and repeating alarm duplex coachwatch with original leather covered and numbered outer case and supporting bracket, the signed engine-turned open-face silver case with gold hinges, signed white enamel dial with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, brass alarm hand, strike/silent lever at 3, the four-train movement signed and numbered, the cut bimetallic three arm balance with gold set-screws, duplex escapement ruby and endstone, the escapement mounted in seperate potence, striking the four quarters and the hours on two gongs, repeating in the same manner operated by a pushbutton in the bow, the alarm ringing on a bell in the case, with length of silver chain and original ratchet key, with a copy dated 1976 of the original purchase certificate stating that the watch was sold to Lord Seymour on the 21st February, 1833
82mm diam.

拍品专文

Lord Seymour is the courtesy title of the Dukes of Somerset. Therefore in 1833 Lord Seymour would have been Edward Adolphus, later twelth Duke of Somerset (1804-1885), the eldest son of Edward Adolphus eleventh Duke of Somerset (1775-1855) and his wife Lady Charlotte Douglas Hamilton (d. 1827) daughter of the ninth Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who married her in 1800. Edward Adolphus, K. G., P. C., succeeded to the Dukedom on the death of his father in 1855. He was Lord Lieutenant of Devon and a trustee of the British Museum. He married Jane Georgiana, (d.1884), youngest daughter of Thomas Sheridan, son of the Rt. Hon. Robert Brinsley Sheridan in 1830. Edward was appointed first Lord of the Admiralty in 1859 and created Earl of St.Maur in 1863