The collection – Time Museum

Chemisard à Bordeaux n. 2.500

Side lever experimental escapement

Robert Robin a Paris n.398.

Hour and quarter repeater, verge escapement, enamelled case.

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.

Johann (II) Holtzmann Wienn

Dual scale thermometer on the Houriet principle

Hilaire Bassereau n.761

Robin style movement with cylinder escapement.

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

Hour and quarter repeater with verge escapement

Girard Rue de la Pompe n.41 Versailles

Duplex double wheel escapement, monthly republican calendar.

Charles Mairet, n. 228

Dead seconds watch with lever escapement by Pouzait

Anonimo, double face

Monthly and weekly calendar, with virgule escapement and “diablotine”

Lefevre a Paris

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

Robert Robin a Paris n.522

Hour and quarter repeater, cylinder escapement, hunting case.

Walthan modello 1883 18s.

Skelectric watch with Masonic decoration.

George Sikes n.312, Carlow

Large display watch with cylinder escapement and dead central seconds.

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.

Guinand, les Brenets Svizzera

Dead seconds watch with duplex lever escapement by Jean Renaud

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.

Joseph Feune, Delemont Swiss

Escapement “pallet pin weel”

Thermometer attributable to Courvoisier n.625

Made on the Houriet principle with a special dial

Sigismund Rentzsch, London

Lever escapement, quarter hour repeater

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

Central seconds, regulateur dial, cylinder escapement

Duval à Frèville an 6

Quarter hour repeater clock watch, verge escapement.

Anonymous Swiss craftsman

Tourbillon with rotation per minute

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.

Anonymous

Robin's lever detent escapement of special shape

Pablo Farran en Barcellona

Double comma escapement (double virgule)

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

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

Theodore Leroy horloger du Roi n.10792

Reverse hour-quarter repeater (pull)

Breguet, N.29

Repetition garde temps jumping hour, sold to M. Malotaky, second interpreter of the Turkish Ambassador, Prairial year 6 (May-June 1798), for 1,200 FF.

F.res Veigneur a Geneve

Tide indicator, enamelled dial, cylinder escapement.

Breguet, n.247 nouvelle series.

"Montre simple plate excentrique nouveau calibre 16½ lignes échapt cilindre, cadran émail” sold to Monsieur Benardaky on 01 luglio 1850 at prize of 1200 FF.

Breguet et Fils, n. 2004

“Montre de souscription”, with reverse caliber sold to Monsieur Manu on 1 May 1810 for 600 Francs

Louis Berthoud n.168

Chronometer fitted with a pivoted detent escapement and a balance with three-roller suspension.

David Louis Huguenin Neuchatel, n.397

Dead seconds watch with detent escapement

Anders Lundstedt, n.414

Sully's escapement

Eduard Forbes Liverpool, n.366

Thirty-tooth “rack lever” escapement

Andrè Hessèn

Movement with experimental verge-lever 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).

Robert Robin, Horloger du Roi, n.44

Scappamento ad ancora e compensazione termica

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

Cylinder escapement by a pupil of Robin

Jean-Moïse Pouzait a Geneve

Month-day calendar with Poizait lever escapement large central seconds mounted in mahogany case

Breguet et Fils , n. 1474

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

Hoffman & Viala,

Calendar movement with dead seconds and special cylinder escapement.

Breguet, n.2644.

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

Anonymous (CFB.)

Revolutionary with Robin type 2 dial, republican calendar, verge escapement

Tschiffelj, Berne Swiss,

Double wheel verge escapement.

Hauchar n.104-2649

“Montre simple” in the style of Breguet.

Breguet et Fils, n.610

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

Breguet, n.156

"Montre a repetition des quart a toc" Robin-style anchor escapement, sold on 28 June 1793 to Monsieur Fabre Loncle.

Breguet, n.55.

“Repètition dix minutes aux deux styles à volontè a heur sautants” with ruby cylinder escapement and parachute, sent “au freres Chaudoir”, 29 Pluviose an 10 (18 February 1802), revised at the request of Monsieur Mazeau in 1828.

Ch.phe Blanchard à Porrentruy , n.6402

Decimal watch with calendar and special escapement

Frères Melly Invenit & fecit, n.1248

Movement with “à pattes d'ecrevisses” (crab leg) escapement

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.

Frederik Jürgensen Kiőbenhavn (Copenhagen)

Cylinder escapement.

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph) n.599

Verge escapement

Jaquet Droz & Leshot (London)

Dead independent seconds movement, cylinder escapement.

Johann Spitznagel in Olmütz n.175

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

Duval fecit à Frèvillè

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

Mugnier, Horloger de l’Empereur et du Roi à Paris n.726

Souscription watch

James Boyd, Cupar fife n.293

Ruby lever escapement.

Guiot a Paris n.1196

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

Bergmiller à Paris n.7/1804

Republican calendar with straight lever escapement

Strömgren og Olsen n.665

Navigation chronometer with sidereal time indication.

Breguet n.125

“Compteur militaire” cylinder escapement 84 divisions

Hilaire Basserau Palais Royale n.365

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

Breguet et Fils Hor.ger de la marine Royale n.3020

"Repetition demi quart sur timbres” with lever escapement on the “garde temps” principle, hunter case with secret “portrait” compartment, “jumping hours” device sold to Count Panin on 11 June 1821, for FF 4,800, reentered, restored and resold with number 4931 to Monsieur Lacroix of Turin on 16 May 1831 for 4800 francs.

Olivier Quartier Le Locle

Escapement by Paul Garnier

Hubert Sarton n. 5019

Cylinder escapement

Dupont in Alençon

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

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

Lateral lever escapement, quarter hour repeater.

Anonymous n.14988

“Montre de souscription” with verge escapement.

Breguet, n.4742.

Montre simple medaillon eccentrique 13 lignes ½, cylinder escapement in ruby sold to Lionel Rothschild (banker) on 31 May 1831 for 1,400 FF.

Le Roy à Paris n. 3278

Revolutionary and Gregorian calendar, "virgule" escapement.

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.

Breguet, n.1593

“Repetition à ponts” con scappamento a cilindro in rubino, venduto al generale Nicholas Joseph Maison, il 30 settembre 1807 per 1.696 FF .

Breguet, n.4763

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

Antoine Moise Faure fecit a Grenoble,

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

Lepaute (oppure Le Paute) a Paris

Scappamento ad ancora detent di Robin

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.993

Montre a repetition des quart a toc, ruby cylinder escapement sold to Monsieur Recordon de Londres on 27 Fructidor an 10 (14 September 1802) for 1,500 FF.

Pierre Giteau n.3946

Hour and quarter repeater, mustache lever escapement

Breguet, n.2, Horloger de la Marine Royal Nouvelle series

Garde temps, rèpètition de première Classe sur les princes des chronomètre” sold to Count Mercy d’Argenteau on 28 January 1824 for 3,400 FF. Repetition of hours, quarters and half quarters, monthly calendar. Jumping hour.

Breguet n.753

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

Lemarie, Paris.

Orologio a secondi morti con scappamento a virgola

Dufour et Fol a Geneve

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

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.

Robert Robin, Horloger du Roi, n.59

Lever escapement and thermal compensation

Andrè Mery n.502

Movement with lever detent escapement invented by Robert Robin

Urban Jürgensen n.696

Quarter hour repeater with double wheel duplex escapement.

Breguet, n.78, " montre simple

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

Robert Robin, Joseph Thaddeus Winnerl

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

Andrè Hessen a Paris

Weekly winding device, monthly calendar, with comma escapement

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

“Montre de souscription”.

Lallemand à Paris, n.450

Straight lever escapement, quarter hour repeater

Breguet apocrifo, n. 570

“Montre de souscription”.

Louis Berthoud n.2574 (bis)

Quarter hour repeater movement with duplex escapement.

Vissière Simon Havre n.16

Elève de Winnerl, chronometer with lever escapement.

Attribuited to Sylvain Mairet n.2241

Extra-flat watch with regulator dial, lever escapement, Rèaumur thermometer.

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph),

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

Comptoir Royal d'horologerie de Carouge

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

Attributable to Albert H. Potter

Chronometer with patented detent escapement.

Recordon London, attribuibile a J.F. Houriet

Chronometer with Earnshaw spring detent escapement, spherical balance spring.

Anonymous attributable to David Louis Huguenin Neuchatel

Chronometer with Robin escapement

Lambert, Elève de Robin n. 903

First generation early straight line lever escapement

Breguet, n.3610

Montre simple a deux aguilles a secondes sien 140 boite en or n.2429 envoyé a Melin de Londres en cadeau pour le prix de 1030 FF le 11 mai 1821. (la n.140 Montre simple à secondes, boîte d’or Vendue le 9 frimaire an 5 (29 novembre 1796) à Monsieur Lavillete 576 FF.)

Pèrusset, Elève de Breguet

Dead seconds chronometer with in-line straight lever escapement.

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”.

Joseph Arnould a Nancy n.1737

Quarter hour repeater by touch with special cylinder escapement.

Lambert, Elève de Robin

Chronometer with lever escapement.

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)

Lechopie a Paris n.1292

Experimental verge escapement

Breguet, n.1689

“Rèpètition de Première Classe” with ruby cylinder escapement, sold to an anonymous “monsieur” on 13 July 1811 for 1,728 FF, resold to Monsieur Gozzel on 22 May 1822 for 900 FF.

Anonymous French

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

Vaucher Freres n.10345

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

Attributable to Dubois et Fils n.3067

Quarter hour repeater and calendar with Debaufre escapement modified by Pierre Le Roy

Thomas Engel Aesch Luzern

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

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.

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.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.

Robin a Paris (Jean Joseph)

Verge escapement, enamelled case decorated with diamonds and pearls

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