Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 213

Yellow Gold Marine Chronograph Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, No. 1646. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp.

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