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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 403

White Gold "Chronographe Automatique Marine" Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, ?Marine?, No. 4277, Ref. 5827. Sold on June 16, 2006. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with curved-rectangular button chronograph, central instantaneous 60-minute register hand, 12-hour register, date and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate of origin and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down winding crown, transparent case back with 7 screws, curved and inclined bezel, coin-edge band, straight lapidated lugs, white gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone hand-turned guilloché, silver with applied blued steel radial Roman numerals on a brushed reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 12-hour register, outer 60-minute divisions, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous blued steel "Breguet" hour and minute hands, silver 60-minute register hand with luminous blued steel tip. M. Cal. 583Q, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, engine-turned rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.