Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 129

"Chronographe Automatique" Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, "Chronographe Automatique", No. 1786. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, ridged band, gold screwed bars, protected winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silvered gold with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold guilloché rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm.