Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 461

Pink Gold Jubilé, 75 pieces Breguet, "Jubilé," No. 1028, Ref. 1747. Made in a limited edition of 75 pieces for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1997. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with regulator dial, date and an 18K pink gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, loupe and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, partly guilloché decorated case back, on a plain gold ring the names of the most famous royal and aristocratic clients of Abraham-Louis Breguet, coin-edge band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silver with outer minute graduation on a plain reserve and 10 minute graduation in painted Arabic numerals on 5 cartouches, subsidiary hour plain ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals, aperture for the date. Under the 12, the Breguet medallion with "1747-1997" and the number. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 591 with double barrel, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, guilloché gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 7 mm.