Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 345

BREGUET TOURBILLON, PLATINUM Breguet, "Tourbillon ", No. 3227, Ref. 5307. Sold on February 16th, 2005. Very fine and rare, large, skeletonized, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, regulator dial and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the Breguet fitted box and Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, coin-edge case band, straight lugs with screwed bars, transparent case back to view the movement, sapphire crystals. D. Silvered gold, guilloché, off-center hour dial with painted radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute divisions, at 6 aperture for the visible tourbillon cage under a polished steel bridge, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. M. Cal. 587, rhodium-plated, entirely hand-engraved and signed "Breguet Nr. 169 - 7 Messidor An 9", 31 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm.