Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 37

Breguet Skeletonized Perpetual Calendar Power Reserve Breguet, Swiss, No. 541, case No. 806 E, Ref. 3317. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and important, skeletonized, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 45-hour power reserve, perpetual and lunar calendar, moon phases and 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, hang tag and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, transparent case back, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire-set winding-crown, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent, subsidiary ring dials for the date and the age of the moon, transparent indicators for the days of the week at 4, the months in the center and the leap year at 8, sector for the up and down indication at 10, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 502, skeletonized gilt brass, hand-engraved decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock absorber, self compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.