Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 17

BREGUET REF. 3800, TYPE XX AERONAVALE Breguet, ?Aeronavale Type XX", Automatic, No. 86738, Ref. 3800. Sold in July 2010. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers and a stainless steel Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breguet fitted box, Certificate of Origin and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished, curved lugs, coin-edge band, graduated bidirectional revolving bezel with arrow, screweddown crown and engraved case back, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute/ seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 60-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.