Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 97

BREGUET REF. 5327 QUANTIEME PERPETUEL YELLOW GOLD Breguet, "Quantième Perpétuel," No. 4589 W, Ref. 5327. Sold on December 20th, 2006. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, age and phases of the moon, leap year indication and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a special ordered Breguet woonden winding box, certificate of origin, booklets and overhaul receipt from 2011 in the amount of CHF 2'748.

Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, transparent case back, flat sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with painted Roman numerals on a plain outer reserve, subsidiary silver ring dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the leap year, sector graduations for the age of the moon at 1 and the up-and-down indication at 11, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 502.3, engraved rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self compensating flat balance-spring, 21K engraved and skeletonized gold rotor.