Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 340

Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, "Marine, Automatic", No. 2972C. Made in the 1990s. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, ribbed band, winding crown with "crown guard", rounded stepped bezel, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silvered gold with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, outer dot minute division, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 549, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm. Approx overall length 185 mm.