ジラールペルゴのインスタグラム(girardperregaux) - 4月29日 22時58分

From the Girard-Perregaux Museum : Tact Watch circa 1860. It is thus called because of the 12 "tacts" representing the hours, which adorn the case and allow its owner to tell the time by running his fingers over the case. The principal use of such timepieces was at night, at a time when neither artificial light nor alarm clocks existed.

Its obvious Neo-Gothic style recalls three contemporary characters who were fascinated by the Middle Ages: the architect Viollet-le-Duc, author of several projects in Geneva, the art critic John Ruskin, a regular customer of the Maison Bautte (to whom the origins of Girard-Perregaux are connected) and the great sculptor Félicie de Fauveau, whose sister married Jacques Bautte, son of Jean-François Bautte.

In technical terms, the mercury-gilded movement contains a cylinder escapement. It drives an external gold hand which allows the time to be read by touch. The case is in nielloed silver with gold accents. The enamel dial is curiously painted with red numbered indicators.

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