Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 46

Breguet, case No. 2229E, Ref. 3290. Sold on March 24th, 1997. Very fine and elegant, thin, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and warranty.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, snap-on case back, engraved with concentric guilloché ring, reeded band, straight lugs, screwed bars, cabochon sapphire-set winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone guilloché silver with sideways painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, inner minute divisions, subsidiary dial for the seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 818/5, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 6 mm.