$39,600
Perpetual Calendar Power Reserve Breguet, Swiss, No. 2253, Ref. 3310. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and important, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with 45-hour power reserve, perpetual and lunar calendar, moon phases and 18K white gold Breguet buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, partly guilloché back, straight lugs, white gold screwed bars, sapphire-set winding-crown, sapphire crystal. Guilloché silvered solid gold with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reseve, subsidiary ring dials for the date, days of the week, the months, the leap year, sector for age of the moon and the up and down indication, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes What is a Perpetual Calendar? A perpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by accounting for the varying durations of each month, as well as self-correcting for the 29th of February during leap years. Audemars Piguet are said to have been the first to produce wristwatches with perpetual calendar and moon phases, in 1924. In 1925, Patek Philippe modified a lady’s pendant watch with perpetual calendar to produce the world’s first instantaneous changing perpetual calendar wristwatch with leap year indication.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-10-17
