Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 71

Breguet - Yellow Gold - Tourbillon - Perpetual Calendar Breguet, "Tourbillon Perpetual," No. 4022, Ref. 3750. Made circa 2005. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, coin-edge band, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Silver hand-guilloche with off-center brushed chapter ring with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, dot minute divisions and the retrograde date at 12, brushed ring dials for the months at 3 and the days of the week at 9, leap year indication at 3, retrograde 30-seconds graduation at 6, aperture for the tourbillon cage with brushed steel bridge carrying a blued steel doubleended seconds hand at 6. Blued steel Breguet, arrow and serpentine hands. m. Cal. 558, gilt and hand-engraved, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with three equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to six positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm.