Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 398

BREGUET 250TH ANNIVERSARY MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR TOURBILLON YELLOW GOLD Breguet, No. 1751, case No.1856H, Ref. 3857. Made in a limited production in 1997 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Louis Breguet (1747 - 1823). Extremely fine and rare, minute repeating 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon, jump-hours, perpetual calendar with retrograde date, leap-year indication and a Breguet 18K yellow gold buckle. Accompanied by the original Breguet green lacquered winding box, Certificate, instructions, yellow gold setting pin and tag.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, curved bezel, coin-edge band, straight lugs, transparent back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silvered gold, jump-hour aperture with black Arabic numerals on a matte gilt ground, minutes chapter with Arabic numerals and dot markers, concentric retrograde date sector with blued steel triangular pointer, subsidiary dials for days of the week and the months, small aperture for leap year indicator, seconds track around the tourbillon aperture with dot markers, the seconds hand mounted directly on the top of the upper pivot, secret signature. Blued steel Breguet hand. M. 13 1/2???, Cal. 556 QPRT, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 29 jewels, one-minute tourbillon with three equidistant polished steel arms, polished steel bridge, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm.