Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 297

BREGUET YELLOW GOLD MARINE CHRONOGRAPH Breguet ?Horloger de la Marine Chronographe Automatique", case No.1101C, Ref. BA 3460 . Made in the 1990's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, guarantee and hang tag.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, stepped bezel, ridged band, gold screwed bars, protected winding crown, case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minutes/seconds divisions with every fi ve Arabic markers, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold guilloche rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm.