Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 308

Breguet, "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 1529, Ref. 3577. Very fine and important, 18K white gold gentleman?s wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, registers and an 18K white gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

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-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the tourbillon cage at 12 under a polished two-arm steel bridge, subsidiary seconds hand on the tour-billon shaft, secret Breguet signature. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. No. 0370, Cal. 554, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic bal-ance adjusted to six positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved: ?Brevet Du 7 Messidor An 9?.Diam. 38 mm.Dim. 28 x 40 mm.