Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 50

?Type XX ? Breguet, ?Transatlantique - Type XX?, Automatic, Ref. 3820. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold military-type wristwatch with fly-back round button chronograph, registers, date and a Breguet white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and 3 additional straps.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional revolving graduated bezel, reeded band, screwed-down case back and crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals and luminous squares, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.