{"product_id":"no-1852-authenticated-by-breguets-patrimony-1914","title":"No. 1852, Confirmed by Breguet's Archive Records, 1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Breguet pendant watch of 1914, its 18ct gold case worked in royal-blue guilloche enamel and centred with a rose-cut diamond rosette. Confirmed by Breguet's Patrimony department from its own archive records, with documented Paris provenance and its original matching enamel-and-pearl chain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pendant watch of 26.7mm, small enough to sit in the hollow of a palm, and finished the way only a great Paris house finishes small things. The back is translucent royal-blue enamel over engine-turning, held inside a white enamel border, and at its centre sits a pinwheel rosette of rose-cut diamonds. The bezel repeats the blue and white around a gilt engine-turned dial with Breguet Arabic numerals and blued steel Breguet hands, the open-ring pattern the house itself invented. Everything about it was made to be worn against dark fabric on a long chain, and the chain is still here: the original sautoir of slender blue enamel batons spaced with seed pearls, closed by a diamond-set clasp. Chains of this kind are nearly always lost or separated over a century; a matching original changes what the piece is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a Breguet of the Brown era, made in Paris and sold from the maison's salon at 2 rue Édouard VII in the spring of 1914. The house's registers record the sale, and the watch's return for service nine years later; the entry, confirmed in writing by Breguet, is set out in The Archive below. What the object adds to the paperwork is condition: the enamel still bright with only a few tiny chips, the rosette secure, the original crystal in place, the chain showing only light wear to a few links.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all its jewellery, it is a proper watch. The keyless bar movement winds from the crown, sets by drawing it out, and runs correctly: a full lever-escapement mechanism folded into a case not much bigger than a coat button.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePieces like this belong to a particular Paris, the last spring before the First World War, when a watch could be commissioned as a jewel and entered in a ledger by hand. This one has kept its enamel, its diamonds, its chain and its paper trail together for more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the register entry is set out in The Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breguet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429829103955,"sku":"PW-0088","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/breguet-18ct-solid-gold-with-royal-blue-guilloch-and-white-enamel-pocket-watch-1_Hero_96893213-8e24-4964-b0fb-560d35e622f5.jpg?v=1785287033","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/no-1852-authenticated-by-breguets-patrimony-1914","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}