Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 258

Breguet Marine Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, "Marine, Automatic", No. 1499. Made in the 1990s. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and tag.

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. Mother-of-pearl with diamond indexes and painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, guilloché, 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 flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.