Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 326

"Moon Phase" Breguet, "Moon Phase", No. 1184. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold mid-sized wristwatch with moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs with screwed gold bars, cabochon sapphire-set windingcrown, sapphire crystal. D. "Guilloché" silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary seconds dial, aperture for the moon phases at 10. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 818/4, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 30 mm. Thickness 8 mm.