Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 779

BREGUET REF. 3577 TOURBILLON CHRONOGRAPHE WHITE GOLD Breguet, "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 3167, Ref. 3577. Made circa 2000. Very fine, rare and important, 18K white gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, registers and an 18K white gold Breguet buckle.

CHF 35,000 - 55,000

HKD 300,000 - 478,000 / USD 37,000 - 58,000

Sold: CHF 46,250

Three-body, solid, polished, coin-edge band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Hand-guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on plain reserves, 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 tourbillon pivot. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 554.2, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved: "Brevet Du 7 Messidor An 9". DIAM. 38 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.