Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 158

Breguet Quantieme Perpetuel chronograph Breguet, ?Chronograph, Quantieme Perpetuel?, No. 3043 G, movement No. 1363, Ref. 3617. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, leap year indication and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and service documents.

CHF 25,000 - 35,000

USD 24,000 - 33,000 / EUR 17,000 - 25,000

Sold: CHF 34,800

C. Two-body, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, correctors on the band, screwed bars. D. Two-tone guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 30 minutes register, the days of the month, of the week, the months and the leap year, outer 1/5th of second/minute track, aperture for the age of the moon. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 13"', Cal. 533 QP, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

What is a Perpetual Calendar? A perpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by accounting for the varying durations of each month, as well as self-correcting for the 29th of February during leap years. Audemars Piguet are said to have been the first to produce wristwatches with perpetual calendar and moon phases, in 1924. In 1925, Patek Philippe modified a lady?s pendant watch with perpetual calendar to produce the world?s first instantaneous changing perpetual calendar wristwatch with leap year indication.