Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 194

Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel Breguet, "Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel", No. 2779, Ref. 3755. Made in 2000. Very fine and rare, large, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 80,000 - 100,000

EUR 52,000 - 65,000

Sold: USD 107,800

C. Two-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized with off-center silver ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, minutes and the retrograde date at 12, silver ring dials for the months at 3 and the days of the week at 9, leap year indication at 3, retrograde 30-seconds graduation at 6, aperture for the tourbillon cage with hand-engraved steel bridge carrying a blued steel double seconds hand at 6. Blued steel Breguet, arrow and serpentine hands. M. Cal.13''', gilt brass, skeletonized and handengraved, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial and case signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm.


LOADING IMAGES
Click to full view
Image
Grading System
Grade:
Case: 1

As new
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

What is a Perpetual Calendar? Aperpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by accounting for the varying durations of each month, as well as self-correcting for the 29th of February during leap years. Audemars Piguet are said to have been the first to produce wristwatches with perpetual calendar and moon phases, in 1924. In 1925, Patek Philippe modified a lady?s pendant watch with perpetual calendar to produce the world?s first instantaneous changing perpetual calendar wristwatch with leap year indication.