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Brand :
Breguet
Model :
King Farouk
Reference :
King Farouk
Category :
Desk Watch
Period :
1920's
Watch ID :
1015
Description :
Lot Description.Breguet. A very fine and rare silver and enamel Art Deco 8-day miniature hump-back desk timepiece with original box, made for King Fouad I of Egypt.Signed Breguet, No. 1015, case no. B 1015, movement no. 1015, sold on 8 November 1925 to His Majesty, King Fouad I of Egypt, for the amount of FF 3,688.Gilt-finished jewelled 8-day lever movement, silvered matte dial, Roman numerals, outer railway five minute divisions, light blue and coral enamelled silver spade hands, hump-back case with rounded top, front decorated with fine inlaid black enamel vertical stripes and a transversal ribbon of black, light blue and coral enamel floral and geometrical decoration in high relief, applied emblem of King Fouad I to the lower part, apertures for winding and regulating the movement and setting the time to the back, case numbered, dial signed and numbered, movement numbered.70 mm. high.Provenance.King Fouad I, father of King Farouk, was the first leader of modern independent Egypt. During his reign (1917-1936) as the ninth sovereign of the line of Mohamed Ali, Egypt changed from its brief status as a sultanate under a British protectorate (and its earlier status, prior to World War I, as a khedivial state nominally subservient to the Ottoman Sultan-Caliph in Istanbul) to become a full-fledged and independent kingdom..A regular and faithful client of Breguet, the present timepiece was made for King Fouad I by special order..Pre-Lot Text.THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR.View Lot Notes ›
