Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 216

Heritage Chronograph Breguet, "Heritage Chronograph," No. 7782, Ref. 5460. Made circa 2002. Very fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Certificate of Origin and instructions.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight and curved lugs, gold screwed bars, case back with 8 screws, domed sapphire crystal. D. Solid 18K gold, hand-guilloche and silver-plated with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, secret Breguet signature, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds graduation, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 550, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K guillloché gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 49 mm. Thickness 11 mm.