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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 154

Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, "Chronographe Automatique Marine", No. 5138H. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, mother of pearl dial and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with screws, reeded band, gold screwed bars, protected winding-crown. D. Mother of pearl two-tone "guilloché" with painted radial Roman numerals and diamonds indexes on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the date. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21 K hand-guilloché gold central rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm.