A1006
Gold and Enamel French Cylinder
£1,900.00
Signed
Ingold - Eve de Breguet - Palais Royale
Circa 1830
Diameter 40 mm
Circa 1830
Diameter 40 mm
1 in stock
Description
An early 19th Century Swiss cylinder with offset dial in a gold and enamel open face case. Keywind gilt Lepine calibre movement with suspended going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel. Silver dial, the offset chapter of Roman numerals within an engine turned border, gold Breguet hands. Slim gold and enamel open face case, finely painted polychrome floral decoration on a black ground. The decoration repeated on the front cover bordering the offset dial. Wound and set through the signed gold cuvette.
Pierre Fredrick Ingold, 1787 - 1878, Paris, London and Chaux de Fonds. Worked for Breguet 1817 - 24 where he learnt jewelling. He attempted to introduce mechanisation to the watch industry in Paris but was not well received. In 1839 he moved to London setting up the British Watch and Clockmaking Company at 75 Dean Street, Soho. He took out three patents but was unable to gain support for the project from the British Government. In 1844 he moved to New York but returned to Chaux de Fonds in 1855 where he introduced Ingold cutters.
