Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 61

Military Type Breguet, No. 1745, "Type XX". The first of three examples in gold made in the 1950s, sold on June 8, 1956 for 115.000 French Francs. Very fine and extremely rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with "retour en vol" round button chronograph, register, and revolving 12-hour bezel for hour recording. Accompanied by an attestation from Breguet, Paris.

CHF 30,000 - 40,000

EUR 19,000 - 25,000 / USD 23,500 - 31,000

Sold: CHF 57,500

C. three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, ribbed revolving bezel with blue enameled Arabic numerals for the 12 hours, shaped lugs.D. black with radium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary sunk seconds and 30-minute register dials. Radium-coated "Bâton" white hands.M. Cal. 14???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Signed on the dial, stamped on the case. Diam. 38 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3 - 37 - 01

Notes

The second watch from the series of three was sold by Antiquorum on October, 15, 2000, lot 415, and is now displayed in the Breguet Museum.