Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 349

Platinum Type XX Breguet, ?Transatlantique Type XX, Automatique?, No. 43218, Ref. 3820. Sold in July 2001. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with ?retour en vol? round button chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate of origin and instructions.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, screw-down case back and crown, graduated bidirectional revolving bezel, coin-edge band, sapphire crystal. D. Satine blue with applied white gold Arabic numerals and luminous square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal.582Q, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam: 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.