Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 170

Breguet Heritage Chronographe Yellow Gold Breguet, "Heritage Chronographe", No. 3360, Ref. 5460. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp.

c. "Empire", three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight and curved lugs, 18K yellow gold screwed bars, back with 8 screws, "bombé" sapphire crystal. d. Solid 18K gold, hand-guilloché and silver-plated with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, secret Breguet signature, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer ring for the 1/5th second graduation, aperture for the date. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 550, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K guillloché gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 48 mm. Thickness 11 mm.