BREGUET NO. 1543 "MONTRE À RÉPÉTITION DES HEURES ET DES QUARTS". A VERY FINE AND RARE 18K GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING CYLINDER WATCH WITH JUMP HOUR HAND AND GOLD DIAL

SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 1543, SOLD ON 21 FLORÉAL AN 13 (11 MAY 1805) TO MONSIEUR FRANTZINS

Breguet No. 1543 "Montre à répétition des heures et des quarts". A very fine and rare 18K gold openface quarter repeating cylinder watch with jump hour hand and gold dial
Signed Breguet, no. 1543, sold on 21 Floréal An 13 (11 May 1805) to Monsieur Frantzins
Gilded brass 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, quarter repeating on one hammer onto a gong, gold cuvette, engine-turned gold dial, Roman numerals on blank chapter ring, secret No. 1543 Breguet to both sides of XII, blued steel Breguet hands, circular engine-turned case, hinged back centred by a blank cartouche with engraved letter F, quarter repeating pull-twist push-piece in the ribbed band, case numbered 1543, cuvette signed Breguet No. 1543, dial signed Breguet et Fils and with secret signature to both sides of XII
49 mm. diam. 

With Breguet Certificate No. 3264 dated 15 February 1971 confirming that the present hour and quarter hour repeating watch with jump hour hand, gold dial, engine-turned gold case engraved with escutcheon and letter F, was sold to Monsieur Frantzins on 21 Floréal An 13, 11 May 1805, for the sum of Francs 2,300.

Watch no. 1543 incorporates several of Abraham-Louis' numerous inventions, starting with the repeating mechanism which marked a turning point in the history of watchmaking. Introduced in 1783, Breguet's "ressort-timbre", a wire gong surrounding the movement which replaced the hitherto used bell, improved not only the quality of the sound but especially helped to reduce the thickness of a watch considerably. The repeating push-piece concealed in the band is another of Breguet's invention. Generally used after 1800, the system is both elegant and reliable. The ruby cylinder movement is fitted with a "suspension élastique", Breguet's ingenious elastic balance suspension also known as pare-chute, the ancestor of the shock-protection devices conceived to protect the pivots from blows. Breguet's jumping hour system is designed in such way that the hour hand remains immobile until the minute hand passes over XII and then jumps precisely to the next hour. The finely engine-turned case features a slim bezel, another of Breguet's signature features, allowing the entire dial to be seen. The dial is of engine-turned gold, a material used by Breguet on only one in fifteen of his watches. It has the usual secret signatures found on metal dials, either side of the 'XII'. The signature is particularly crisp on this dial, possibly because gold dials do not tarnish and therefore do not need cleaning very often. 

相比第299标，这只宝玑可便宜多了，估价才15000-25000瑞郎，成交价远远超出，52500瑞郎，应该的。当然如果2万出头能拿下就太好了，这个价格几年前是有可能的，以后恐怕越来越不可能了。

和第299标一样，这只No 1543也是开面二问表，不同的是这一只的级别低不少，但再怎样也是正宗宝玑，大师生前年代出品，而且玑镂表面乃经典宝玑特色，虽显旧，但也更具古意。机芯也深具宝玑特色，降落伞避震，看目录图片，机芯状态很好。

这只No 1543在George Daniels的The Art of Breguet宝书中有图文简介 --第197页。等论坛回帖功能完全恢复后，我再贴图。

恭喜买家。