Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 254

White Gold "Heritage Chronographe" Breguet, "Heritage Chronographe", Ref. 5460. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with oliveshaped button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp.

C. "Empire", two-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight and curved lugs, 18K white gold screwed bars, sapphire "bombé" crystal. D. Solid 18K gold, hand-"guilloché" and silver-plated with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, secret Breguet signature, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer ring for the 1/5th second graduation, aperture for the date. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 550, rhodium-plated, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring, "guilloché" 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 49 mm. Thickness 11 mm.