Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 189

BREGUET REF. 3800 TYPE XX AERONAVALE STEEL Breguet, "Aeronavale Type XX," Automatic, No. 33334. Made circa 2000. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers and stainless steel Breguet link bracelet with concealed deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished, curved lugs, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel with arrow, screwed-down crown and engraved case back, sapphire crystal. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute / seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 60-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.