Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 164

"Platinum Tourbillon Squelette No 1" Breguet, "Tourbillon Squelette", No. 1, Ref. 3355PT. Made in 1994. Very fine and rare, skeletonized and hand-engraved, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and a platinum Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, reeded band, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with painted radial Roman numerals on an off-center ring dial at 12 for hours and minutes, at 6 the visible tourbillon cage under a hand-engraved steel bridge bearing a 3-spoke blued steel seconds hand for the seconds sector. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 13''', skeletonized and hand-engraved, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with tourbillon regulator and polished steel cage with 3 equidistant arms, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.