THE ART OF BREGUET
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991
LOT 183
An Exhibition Tourbillon Watch No. 1991, specially made for the Breguet exhibitions in London, Geneva, Paris, New York, Brussels and Zurich in 1986. Gold keyless pocket chronometer with one minute tourbillon, thermometer and winding indicator.
CHF 120,000 - 150,000
Sold: CHF 115,000
Case: 18ct., three piece, bassine et filets form, with screw fitted back, engine-turned à decor de
vannerie, reeded band with glazed cover. Pendant
doubling as a winding crown.
Dial: Engine-turned silver, signed: "Breguet", with Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary
seconds, with gold inlaid sectors for the
centigrade thermometer and the up-and-down
scale graduated for 48 hours. Gold Breguet
hands.
Movement: Gilt brass, 22"', half-plate caliber,
signed: "Breguet, No. 1991", and stamped with
the mark of T. Engel, with fausses côtes decoration,
19 jewels, lateral lever escapement with cut
bimetallic balance. Free-sprung blued-steel spiral
balance spring with terminal'curves. One minute
tourbillon with three-arm polished steel cage,
driven from the minute wheel.
In perfect condition
Diam. 56 mm.
