Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 349

?Equation of Time No. 1? Breguet, ?Equation of Time, Perpetual Calendar?, Automatic, No. 01, Ref 3311. Made in 1993. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with equation of time, perpetual calendar, 45-hour power-reserve and an 18k yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, ridged band, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals, cabochon sapphire set, windings-crown. D. Two-tone "guilloché" silvered gold with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary sectors for the equation of time and the up-and-down indication, subsidiary ring dials for the days of the month, the months and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week at 12, secret Breguet signature. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 502 QPET, rhodium-plated, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, off-center rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.