Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jul 10, 2005

LOT 200

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. Skeletonizedwith off-center silver ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, minutes and the retrograde date at 12, silver ring dialsfor 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 tourbilloncage 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 withpolished steel arms, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial and case signed.Diam. 40 mm.