107th Auction

2022/11/19

Lot 324

Paul Buhré

A fine, heavy lever chronometer for the Russian market with special form precision adjustment according to Swiss patent no. 24677 by Charles Rosat

Sold

estimated
1.6003.000 €
Price realized
4.200 €
specific features
Case
14 K pink gold, engraved monogram.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Precision bridge movement, patent no. 24677 from January 31st, 1903 "Dispositif régulateur pour raquette montée sur un porte-spiral pouvaut tourner autour de l'axe du balancier" (balance spring regulator) according to Charles Rosat, club-tooth lever escapement, Guillaume gold screw compensation balance.
Case no.136344
Diam.54 mm
Circa1890
Ctry.Switzerland
Wt.126 g


Paul Buhré took over the watch business from his father - also Paul Buhré - who had established it in 1815 in St Petersburg. He was purveyor to the court of the Russian Tsar and had branches in Moscow. The Buhré family was one of the most important retailers of watches in Russia, importing most of their timepieces from Switzerland. Around 1880 Paul Buhré founded a watch factory in Le Locle under his name, with Swiss watchmaker Paul Othenin-Girard as director of the company. When the company founder retired, Othenin-Girard continued the business together with his brother-in-law, watchmaker Georges Pfund in St Petersburg. During the revolution in 1917 the market in Russia collapsed and Buhré began specialising in deck watches, marine chronometers, chronographs and small pendulum table clocks. In 1963 Buhré was taken over by the DIXI group.