Description :
A set of desktop and pocket watches Breguet sold at Sotheby’s for a record high price – $ 6.8 million Lot Rare experts estimated less than $ 5 million.
Overall height is about 58 hours, see Case desktop model in bronze and tortoiseshell decorated with engraved and embossed patterns. Pocket watch made of gold and have a more concise design.
Kit is based on the mechanism Sympathique, to automatically synchronize time on handheld and desktop clock. To do this, put a pocket watch in a box on a desktop chronometer (they are also self-winding).
Only in this series released about ten similar hours. All of them are designed for ladies crowned – Napoleon, King George IV of Great Britain, etc.