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Auction 107
Lot 101

107th Auction

2022/11/19

Lot 101

Abraham-Louis Breguet
Simple Garde Temps Medaille Excentrique

An important and extremely rare "Simple Garde Temps Medaille Excentrique" No. 4295, sold on March 24th, 1825 to Count Tolstoye for 2,400 francs

Sold

estimated
8.000—20.000 €
Price realized
15.000 €
specific features
Case
18 K gold, case by Tavernier (No. 4040), spiral guilloche pattern, silver case band, special locking mechanism.
Dial
Silver, engine-turned, off-centre hour chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, regulation scale, gold Breguet hands.
Movement
Bridge movement, keywind, club-tooth lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance.
Case no.4040 4295
Diam.40 mm
Circa1825
Ctry.France
Wt.42 g


Garde-temps is a term used by Breguet specially to denote his high-precision watches and is regarded as a guarantee of the highest quality.


The father of the famous world literary figure Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy was born in 1794. At the age of seventeen he took part in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp to a distant uncle, Prince Andrei Ivanovich Gorchakoff. Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy also took part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, and in 1814 he was taken prisoner during an adjutant's ride in France, from which he was only released by the peace treaty of 1815.
After the French campaign, tired of military service, he took his leave and went to live with his father in Kazan. When his father died, leaving only debts, he married the rich Princess Wolkonsky and then moved to Jasnaja Poljana, where he was widowed after nine years of happy marriage.