Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 271

Breguet platinum Type XX ? Transatlantic Breguet, "Transatlantic-Type XX," Automatic, case No. 4268 H, Ref. 3820. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with fly-back round button chronograph, registers, date and a Breguet platinum deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving graduated bezel, reeded band, screwed-down case back and crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Blue with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.