Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 106

"Serpentine - Perpetual Calendar" Breguet, "Serpentine - Perpetual Calendar", No. 3362, Ref. 3787. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, age of the moon and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, ridged band, straight lugs, transparent case back, screwed gold bars, sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloché silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, sector between 3 and 9 for the retrograde days of the month, sector for the age of the moon, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the leap year and the moon phases. Blued steel "Breguet" hands, serpentine hand for the date. M. Cal. 591, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.