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Breguet
Robin
French Revolution
Chronometers
Single hand Watch
Lever escapements
Special escapement
Watches with complications
Pupils of Breguet
Pupils of Robert Robin
Enamelled cases
Historical origin

Cyrus Levard, E.ve de Robin, n.183

Cylinder escapement by a pupil of Robin

Antoine Moise Faure fecit a Grenoble,

Republican and Gregorian calendar, lever escapement by J.M. Pouizait, skeletonized movement.

Robert Robin, Horloger du Roi, n.59

Lever escapement and thermal compensation

Charles Mairet, n. 228

Dead seconds watch with lever escapement by Pouzait

Breguet et Fils n.3773

Quarter repeater in gold and platinum hunting case, sold to Count François Potocki on 15 March 1822, price 2400 FF. Repurchased in 1828 and resold to Madame Dupaty in 1829

Lallemand à Paris, n.450

Straight lever escapement, quarter hour repeater

M.G. Cole, Inv. London & Bexley Heath n. 1508

“Resilient lever” lever escapement modified by Mortimer George Cole.

Breguet, n.1302

“Rèpètition des quart a toc” with ruby ​​cylinder escapement, “jumping hour” device sold to monsieur Frederic Frackmann (Breguet’s correspondent in Moscow) on 15 Germinal anno 12 (5 May 1804) for the price of 1500 FF.

Breguet n.685

“Montre de souscription a tact” sold to the brother of the Spanish Consul (Monsieur de la Serna) in Vendemiaire year X (1802) for 1,100 FF.

Robert Robin a Paris n.398.

Hour and quarter repeater, verge escapement, enamelled case.

Hoffman & Viala,

Calendar movement with dead seconds and special cylinder escapement.

Breguet, n.1782

“Rèpètition à minutes” chronometer with double-wheel duplex escapement, sold to the Spanish Princes in Valençay on 29 May 1809 for the price of 2,400 F.

Breguet, n.1195

“Rèpètition de Première Classe” con scappamento a cilindro in rubino, e jumping hour venduto a monsieur Ternaux (Étienne Nicolas Louis Ternaux ) , il 2 Brumaio anno 13 (24 ottobre 1804) per 1.800 FF.

Breguet, n.3002

“Répétition des quarts à ponts moyenne, 15 lignes, boîte or n. 3510, échappement à cylindre”. Sold on 05 November 1817 to Madame Soehnée. Monthly calendar and secret compartment containing a lock of hair.

Robert Robin a Paris, n.42

Side lever escapement.

Breguet, n.4763

« Simple garde-temps, arbre percé 20 lignes échappement ancre” sold to Monsieur de Bignon 11 March 1858.

Vauchez a Paris n.4913

Quarter-repeating watch, enamelled case decorated with diamonds and pearls, formerly belonging to Queen Catherine of Württemberg, wife of Jérôme Bonaparte.

Anonymous, n. 4097

Anonymous watch with central and auxiliary dead seconds, chicane lever escapement

Blondeau Antoine horloger du Roi , rue de la Paix 19, à Paris, n. 1634-24720.

Twin barrel chronometer, monthly calendar with ruby ​​lateral lever escapement

Robert Robin de la Soc.te des Inv.tons et Dècouvertes, n.3

Lateral lever escapement, quarter hour repeater.

Guinand, les Brenets Svizzera

Dead seconds watch with duplex lever escapement by Jean Renaud

Julien Le Roy n.4073 finished by his son Pierre Le Roy

Hour and quarter repeater with verge escapement

Martin Boeck Wien, n. 34

“Montre de souscription” with double wheel duplex escapement. Watch published in George Rigot's book: “Montres de souscription et a tact de Breguet“ ed.2017

Breguet n.4238

“Répétition à ponts, medium size, 19 lignes, pierced arbor, gold case no. 4068, half-quarter repeating, lever escapement,” sold on 16 March 1826 to Monsieur Spies. Monthly calendar and a secret compartment containing the portrait of a young woman.

Lepaute (oppure Le Paute) a Paris

Scappamento ad ancora detent di Robin

Robin a Paris n.22940

Small sized watch, cylinder escapement, enamelled case

Louis Berthoud n.2574 (bis)

Quarter hour repeater movement with duplex escapement.

Breguet, n.2761

“Montre petit medaillon simple, 13 lignes, pierced arbor, gold case with revolving back, no. 3261, moon phase, lever escapement”. Sold on 02 April 1814 to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia (Alexander I) for the sum of 2,400 francs.

Breguet, n.441 (nouvelle series)

“Chronometre de poche” with modified Earnshaw detent escapement, sold to Monsieur Hottinguer (banker of the Maison Breguet), on 11 October 1844 for 1,500 FF.

Guillarmod Frères

Self-winding hour and quarter repeater with pedometric oscillating mass, cylinder escapement.

Comptoir Royal d'horologerie de Carouge

Verge escapement. Interesting watch of historical value for the signature referring to the Savoy kings.

Breguet, n.1583

Built on the principle of “garde temps”, quarter and half quarter hour repeater with double wheel duplex escapement sold to Monsieur Egerston (Egerton) on 17 December 1813 for 3,000 FF .

Urban Jürgensen n.677

Quarter hour repeater with double wheel duplex escapement.

Breguet, n.2492

Turkish market watch, hour and quarter repeater with ruby ​​cylinder escapement, translucent red enamel case, sold to Leroy in Constantinople for 2,400 FF (Breguet agent).

Guiot a Paris n.1196

Watch presented by Napoleon Bonaparte to Jean Joseph Gauthier on 21 Floréal Year VII (May 10, 1799), verge escapement

Andrè Mery n.502

Movement with lever detent escapement invented by Robert Robin

Breguet, n.104

‘Montre a repetition des quart a toc’ lever escapement, monthly calendar, sold on 09 August 1792 to Monsieur Robert (Anglais) for 1800 francs “Nouveau calibre”.

Le Roy Charles Bazile au Palais Royale 88 à Paris n. 3568

Hour and quarter repeater with cylinder escapement.

Janvier fils à Paris en 1805

First generation French lever escapement movement

Bazile Charles Le Roy n.4737

Decimal watch with virgule escapement, power reserve, jumping hours and barometer, center seconds n.4737 belonging to Antoine Louis Leon de Saint-Just.

Jean Georges Herbst, n. 352

Cylinder escapement, quarter hour repeater.

Urban Jürgensen n.696

Quarter hour repeater with double wheel duplex escapement.

Blanc Fils Palais Royal

“Montre de souscription”.

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph),

Monthly and week calendar, with central seconds, verge escapement.

Anonymous French

Dead-beat seconds watch with double-wheel duplex escapement.

Breguet et Fils , n. 1474

“Montre de souscription” case n.918 sold au freres Chaudoir 20 Nivose an 13 (10 Janvier 1805)

Anonymous decimal French Revolution

Decimal watch with double time indication on a 24-hour basis, verge escapement, enamelled case

Breguet, n.78, " montre simple

Straight lever escapement, registered on 30 September 1791, there is no information regarding the sale.

Robert Robin, Horloger du Roi, n.44

Scappamento ad ancora e compensazione termica

Vaucher Freres n.10345

Particularly shaped side lever escapement, complete calendere, hour-quarter repeating

Vissière Simon Havre n.16

Elève de Winnerl, chronometer with lever escapement.

Laborie n. 540

Early lever escapement.

Louis Tavernier, Paris Rue de la Loi, n.K+B 552

Chronometer with quarter hour repeater and calendar, pivoted detent escapement with experimental thermal compensation

Breguet n.291, nouvelle series.

Montre de carrosse a repetition des quart et function de reveil sold to the count de Mercy Argentau on 09 June 1837 at the price of 620 FF, ancienne 1155 sold to Pierre de Salabert for the Marquise of Santa Cruz on 18 Floreal year 13 (08 May 1805) , at the price of 1,440 francs.

Duval fecit à Frèvillè

George Graham lever escapement, double-dial astronomical watch, equation of time. Double face watch.

Thomas Engel Aesch Luzern

“In homage to A.L. Breguet”, chronometer with thermometer, weekly calendar and power reserve.

Olivier Quartier Le Locle

Escapement by Paul Garnier

Duval fecit à Roùen

Double-dial astronomical watch with cylinder escapement, centre seconds, and equation of time.

Breguet et Fils n. 802

“Montre de souscription” case n.307 « Remise a son excellence l'Ambassadeur de Espagne pou faire passer a Monsieur X » 5 Terminador an 9 (24 Jullet 1801)

Antoine Blondeau, rue de la Paix 19, à Paris, n. 369

“Montre de souscription”.

Andrè Hessen a Paris

Weekly winding device, monthly calendar, with comma escapement

Etienne Tavernier n.7322

Seven-day power reserve, cylinder escapement.

Anders Lundstedt, n.414

Sully's escapement

Lambert, Elève de Robin n. 903

First generation early straight line lever escapement

Recordon London, attribuibile a J.F. Houriet

Chronometer with Earnshaw spring detent escapement, spherical balance spring.

Adamson a Paris

Movement with particular Pouzait lever escapement, quarter hour repeater

Walthan modello 1883 18s.

Skelectric watch with Masonic decoration.

James Houghton Ormskirk, n.540

“Club footed” verge escapement.

David Louis Huguenin Neuchatel, n.397

Dead seconds watch with detent escapement

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph) n.599

Verge escapement

Breguet a Paris, montre simple a savonette remontoir n.3754

Sold to Son Excellence M. Achille Fould on 12 November 1860 for 950 FF. Presented to Professor Heinrich Siegel

Sigismund Rentzsch, London

Lever escapement, quarter hour repeater

Bazile Charles Le Roy

“Medaillon a tact” n.3227 sold to Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, King of Westphalia.

Louis Berthoud n.2461-53

Chronometer with pivoted detent escapement sold to M. le General Cafarelli, Prèfet Maritime de Brest le 16 Messidor anno XI (5 July 1803) for 70 Louis.

Anonymous

Robin's lever detent escapement of special shape

Pèrusset, Elève de Breguet

Dead seconds chronometer with in-line straight lever escapement.

Attributable to Albert H. Potter

Chronometer with patented detent escapement.

Annual calendar with manual equation of time, thermometer (Bongrand system)

Vacheron & Constantin Genève n.10313

Hour and quarter repeater and alarm with cylinder escapement.

Vacheron & Constantin Genève

Alarm with verge escapement

Joseph Feune, Delemont Swiss

Escapement “pallet pin weel”

Breguet, n.2107/1385

Watch for the Turkish market, quarter-hour repeater with ruby cylinder escapement, shipped to the Maison de Russie on 23 April 1810 and sold by Moreau on 31 December 1810 for FF 1,680.

Andrè Hessèn

Movement with experimental verge-lever escapement.

Joseph Arnould a Nancy n.1737

Quarter hour repeater by touch with special cylinder escapement.

Breguet et Fils, n.610

Compteur a pointage, nouveau modele chronographe a encre, sold at the College de France for 350 FF

Pablo Farran en Barcellona

Double comma escapement (double virgule)

Robert Robin a Paris n.212

Hour and quarter repeater, cylinder escapement, enamel case

Robin a Paris (Nicolas Robert-Jean Joseph?) n.10838

Central seconds, regulateur dial, cylinder escapement

Anonymous Swiss craftsman

Tourbillon with rotation per minute

Julien Le Roy n.1060

Case with floral enamels, verge escapement.

Breguet et Fils, n. 1714

“Subscription" watch, Cassa di Joly no. 1769, sold to Prince Kurakin on August 9, 1811, for 1,080 FF, returned in 1812 and resold to the Princes of Valencay on May 8, 1812, for 980 FF.”

Breguet, Horger de la Marina Royale, N.3707

"Montre simple” N.3707 sold to Monsieur Furchy Notaire on 31 June 1822 for 1140 FF.

Breguet n.1452

Repetittion a cuvette ruage 4269 en or 742 Gros, vendu au General Moreau le 2 octobre 1810 au prix de 1800 FF

Lefevre a Paris

Detent Lever escapement invented by Robert Robin. Restored by Breguet.

Dupont in Alençon

Straight lever escapement (attributable to Marguerite Dupont who was a watchmaker in Alençon in 1795)

Breguet apocrifo, n. 570

“Montre de souscription”.

Robert Robin, Horloger du Roi, n.588

Quarter hour repeater cylinder escapement

Breguet, n.2644.

Montre a répétition de quart, a grand second d’un coup, sur le principes de chronomètre.

Anonymous, signed Breguet, n. 214

“Montre de souscription” apocryphal. Watch published in George Rigot's book: “Montres de souscription et a tact de Breguet“ ed.2017

Lechopie a Paris n.1292

Experimental verge escapement

Tschiffelj, Berne Swiss,

Double wheel verge escapement.

Hahn H.ger Mecanicien n.483 Rue Helvètius 63 Paris

Quarter hour repeater with lateral lever escapement

Hilaire Bassereau n.761

Robin style movement with cylinder escapement.

Johann (II) Holtzmann Wienn

Dual scale thermometer on the Houriet principle

Chemisard à Bordeaux n. 2.500

Side lever experimental escapement

Lemarie, Paris.

Orologio a secondi morti con scappamento a virgola

George Sikes n.312, Carlow

Large display watch with cylinder escapement and dead central seconds.

Ch.phe Blanchard à Porrentruy , n.6402

Decimal watch with calendar and special escapement

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph)

Verge escapement, enamelled case decorated with diamonds and pearls

Breguet, n.4326

"Rèpètition de première Classe sur les Principes des Chronomètres", calendar, ruby lever escapement, hour, quarter and half-quarter repeater, sold to M. le Professeur Shumacher, on 23 February 1829 for 3,200 FF.

James Boyd, Cupar fife n.293

Ruby lever escapement.

Johann Spitznagel in Olmütz n.175

Automatic winding with beating mass, perpetual monthly and weekly retrograde calendar, cylinder escapement.

Hilaire Basserau Palais Royale n.365

Hour and quarter repeater with double wheel duplex escapement, snap calendar, engraved equation of time

Farjaire n.1835

Decimal clock watch with hour and half-hour striking (duodecimal), moon phase, verge escapemen

Gregson Jean Hor. Du Roy

Virgule escapement

Griebel Paris rue Vivienne 13

Quarter and half quarter hour repeater with ruby ​​cylinder escapement no. 255.

Dufour et Fol a Geneve

Decimal watch with double time indication on a 24-hour basis, verge escapement.

Breguet n.753

Quarter andhour repeater, jumping hours device with experimental ruby verge escapement.

Robert Robin, Joseph Thaddeus Winnerl

Chronometer made by Joseph Thaddeus Winnerl on a movement by Robert Robin

Girard Rue de la Pompe n.41 Versailles

Duplex double wheel escapement, monthly republican calendar.

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