Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 151

BREGUET REF. 5460 CHRONOGRAPH WHITE GOLD Breguet, Chronograph, Automatic, No. 4995 R, Ref. 5460. Made in 2004, sold June 19th, 2005. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with 45 hours power reserve, oval button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, instruction booklet and service document.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, curled lugs, white gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Solid 18K gold, guilloché with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, outer 1/5th seconds track, secret Breguet signature, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 550, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, guilloché 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 49 mm. Thickness 11 mm.