Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 128

?Type XX? Breguet, ?Transatlantique - Type XX?, Automatic, Ref. 3820. Made circa 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold military-type wristwatch with fly-back round button chronograph, registers, date and a Breguet 18K yellow gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional revolving graduated bezel, reeded band, screwed-down case back and crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and luminous squares, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 15-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.