Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 197

Breguet Platinum Type XX Limited edition Breguet, Type XX ? Transatlantique - Automatic, No. 63/90, case No. 43432, Ref. 3827. Made in a limited edition of 90 pieces circa 1998. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished, screw-down case back and crown, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel, curved lugs, reeded band, sapphire crystals. D. Salmon with applied Arabic numerals and dot luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute track, aperture for the date. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 582/1, 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. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.