THE ART OF BREGUET

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 14, 1991

LOT 131

A Monsieur Hayes Watch No. 4360, sold on 31 July 1947, for an unrecorded sum. Two colour gold keyless watch with minuterepeating, perpetual calendar, phase of the moon, winding indicator and chronograph, with tachometer scale and instantaneous 60 minute recorder.

Case: 18 ct., three piece, Empire style, No.4360, with white gold rims and bow, and reeded band, the back (trace of a filled monogram) and the bezel polished. Gold cuvette.
Dial: Engine-turned silver, signed: "Breguet, No. 4360", with Roman numerals on a plain reserve, Arabic numerals for minutes and seconds, the tachometer scale calculated to the base 1000, with subsidiary dials for days of the week, instantaneous minute-recorder with concentric sector engraved with the up-and-down scale, the months of the year, and the date with concentric seconds and aperture for phase of the moon. Gold Breguet hands.
Movement: Rhodiumed, 19"', with fausses côtes decoration, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement and cut bimetallic balance. Bluedsteel Breguet balance spring. Repeating on gons with slide in the band. Chronograph mechanism visible on the back plate with pushpieces in the winding crown and the band.
In very fine condition. Diam. 56 mm.