Marine chronometer with forty-hour power reserve, signed on - Lot 167

Lot n° 167
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Marine chronometer with forty-hour power reserve, signed on - Lot 167
Marine chronometer with forty-hour power reserve, signed on the dial 'Breguet neveu & Compie N°351' the case and the movement also numbered '351', circa 1840. Silvered dial (worn around the edge), with two subsidiary hour scales, one at 12 o'clock for hours and minutes, one at 6 o'clock for seconds, Roman numerals for hours, Arabic numerals for minutes and seconds, brass hands for hours and minutes, blued steel for seconds; full plate movement in brass and polished steel, cylindrical pillars, barrel, detent escapement mounted on a plate applied on the plate with two-armed compensated balance fitted with six adjustment screws placed above the cylindrical balance spring in flat steel, winding shaft with protective sleeve; brass case with lead counterweight inside, mounted in a cardan shaft in the form of a rounded rectangle, blocking by slider; mahogany case (wear), fitted with an inspection slider and brass cuffs. Replaced key. Height: 20cm - Length: 18.5cm - Depth: 19cm. To be cleaned. Expert: Anthony TURNER Breguet, Neveu et Compagnie was the name of the company formed in 1833 to buy the shares of the Breguet company owned by Antoine-Louis Breguet. It was composed of Louis-Clément Breguet ('Breguet'), Jonas-Louis Levasseur, nephew of Abraham Louis Breguet ('nephew'), and the accountant Trédos ('Compagnie'). This chronometer is described in the registers as 'Horloge Marine à 1 barillet' with the remark 'Vendue par Huette le 16 Avril 1842'. François Julien Fréderic Huette (11 March 1790-6 April 1871) was an optician in Nantes renowned for the quality of his navigational and meteorological instruments, a member of the Société Académique de Nantes and responsible for meteorological observations at the Observatoire de la Marine in that city. He was the official agent of the Breguet company in the port.
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