Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 295

BREGUET "GRAND COMPLICATION - TOURBILLON 1801-2001" PINK GOLD Breguet, "Grand Complication - Tourbillon 1801-2001", No. 2151, Ref. 1801. Made expressly in 2001 in a special edition to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the invention of the tourbillon by Abraham-Louis Breguet. Accompanied by the original Breguet fitted wooden box, loup, Certificates, instruction booklet and extra leather strap. Extremely fine, rare and important, large, half-hunting-cased, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Breguet deployant clasp.

Four-body, solid, polished and brushed, hinged guilloche cover with porthole and engraved "Tourbillon" plaque, opened by a co-axial push-button in the winding crown, transparent case back to view the movement, coin-edge band, straight lugs with gold- screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Silvered gold, guilloche eccentric radial chapter ring set within a silvered gold plate with fausses côtes decoration, engraved "1801 - 2001". Blued steel Breguet hands. At 6, the visible tourbillon cage under a polished steel bridge, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. Cal. 557, entirely hand-engraved and signed "Tourbillon Breguet No. 1972 - Brevet du 7 Messidor an 9", 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.