Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 224

BREGUET MARINE HORA MUNDI, WHITE GOLD Breguet, ?Marine ? Automatique - World Time", No. 5972, Ref. 3700. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, world time, center seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with date and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, coin-edge band, 2 superimposed winding-crowns, rounded stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Silvered gold, central disc with meridians and parallels, surrounded by a plain silver 12-hour ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals and a revolving 24-hour ring for the second time zone with Arabic numerals, outermost silver ring bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, rotated with the inner crown, aperture for the date. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 9 mm.