Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 52

Chronograph Breguet, No. 7339, Ref. 8490. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and diamond mid-size wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, bezel set with 48 round diamonds, protected winding-crown, case back with 6 screws, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, 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, selfcompensating flat balance spring, gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dian. 30 mm. Thickness 10 mm.