Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 51

Type XX Breguet, "Transatlantic-Type XX," Automatic, Ref. 3820. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel military type wristwatch with fly-back round button chronograph, registers, date and a Breguet stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving graduated bezel, reeded band, screwed-down case back and crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.