Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 443

Breguet. No. 1189G, No. 2123D and No. 935G, Set No. II/III. Made circa 2000. Very fine and exceptionally rare set of three watches comprising a pink gold wristwatch with jumping hours, a platinum wristwatch with chronograph registers and date, and a yellow gold minute-repeating wristwatch with 24-hour indication. Accompanied by the fitted box and original certificates.

A. "24-Hour Jump-Hour" Breguet, "Heures sautantes", No. 1189G, Ref. 3620BR. Very fine and rare, jump-hour, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with a pink gold buckle B. "Chronographe Automatique" Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, "Chronographe Automatique", No. 2123D, Ref. 3460PT. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, diamond-set mother of pearl dial and platinum Breguet deployant clasp. C. ?Minute Repeater? Breguet, No. 935, Ref. 3637BA. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with 24-hour indication, an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with concentric ?guilloché? engraving, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, rounded stepped bezel, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. ?Guilloché? silver with painted Arabic numerals for the 60 minutes on a plain reserve, aperture for the 24-hour jump hour. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 562, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensated flat balancespring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm. C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, ridged band, gold screwed bars, protected winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché mother-of -pearl with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, two diamond indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date, Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm. C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. "Guilloché" silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 24 hours. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. No. 3168, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 30 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic ba-lance, 5 adjustments, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, repeating on two gongs by activating slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.