Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 66

Breguet Tourbillon Chronographe Breguet, "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 4530, Ref. 3577. Made circa 2000. Very fine, rare and important, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a user manual, box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, aperture for the tourbillon cage at 12 under a polished two-arm steel bridge, subsidiary seconds hand on the tourbillon shaft. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 554.2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved: ?Brevet Du 7 Messidor An 9?. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.