Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 62

"Equation of Time" Breguet,"Equation of Time - Perpetual Calendar", Automatic, No. 8522, Ref 3477. Made circa 2000. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with equation of time, perpetual calendar, 45-hour power reserve and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted winding box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, ridged band, transparent case back, straight lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystals. 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, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, off-center rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.