Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 53

Chronograph Automatic Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, No. 2060, Ref. 3460. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Breguet link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, ridged band, platinum screwed bars, protected winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché, silvered, with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, outer 1/5th seconds scales wit 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, 21K gold engine-turned rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm.