Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 330

Breguet, "Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel", No. 4972, Ref. 3755. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, large, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, retrograde perpetual calendar and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized with off-center silver ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, minutes and the retrograde date at 12, silver ring dials for the months at 3 and the days of the week at 9, leap year indication at 3, the 30-seconds graduation at 6, aperture for the tourbillon cage with hand-engraved steel bridge and blued steel double seconds hand at 6. Blued steel "Breguet" and "serpentine" hands. M. Cal.13''', gilt brass, skeletonized and hand-engraved, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial and case signed.Diam. 40 mm.