Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 226

Breguet - Hand Engraved - Moon Phase- Power Reserve Breguet, ?Moon Phase, Power Reserve,? No. 4418. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, 18K white gold, semi-skeletonized, hand-engraved wristwatch with 50-hour power reserve, moon phases and age of the moon, date and an integral 18K white gold Breguet mesh bracelet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, stepped bezel, transparent case back, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent, subsidiary ring dial for the date at 6, graduations for the up-anddown indication at 10, age of the moon at 2, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 502, rhodium-plated, entirely hand-engraved with floral and scroll decorations, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, off-center skeletonized rotor. Case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 7 mm.