Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 98

Breguet 1747 - 1997, "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 2579, Ref. 3567. Produced in very few examples in1997 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Abraham Louis Breguet?s birth.Very fine and important, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillonregulator, round button chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with engraved edge, reeded band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, gold screwed bars,sapphire crystals D. "guilloché" silver with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the 30-minuteand 12-hour registers, aperture for the tourbillon cage at 12 under a polished 2-arm steel bridge, subsidiary seconds hand on the tour-billonshaft, secret Breguet signature. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. No. 1756, Cal. 554, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decora-tion,25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic bal-anceadjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved: ?Brevet Du 7 Messidor An 9?.Diam. 38 mm.For a note, see previous lot.