Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 546

BREGUET YELLOW GOLD TOURBILLON Breguet, Brevet du 7 Messidor An 9, ?Tourbillon No. 114?, No. 2297, Ref. 3357. Made in the 1990?s. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, transparent case back, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone guilloché silver with painted black radial Roman numerals on an off-center plain brushed reserve showing the Breguet secret signature, visible tourbillon cage below 6 with brushed steel bridge, applied brushed seconds sector on the edge. Blued steel Breguet hands, three-arm seconds hand on the tourbillon upper pivot. M. Cal. 558, gilt hand-engraved along with the inscription ?Brevet du 7 Messidor An 9?, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, polished steel one-minute tourbillon carriage with index regulator. Dial and case signed, movement signed and numbered 114. DIAM. 36 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm.