Breguet Ref. 5335

BREGUET, REF. 5335 MESSIDOR TOURBILLON MYSTERIEUSE SQUELETTE PINK GOLD Breguet, "Tourbillon Messidor", No. 2728, movement No. 4980, Ref. 5335. Sold on February 3, 2010. Extremely fine and rare, large, 18K pink gold skeletonized wristwatch with "floating" visible one-minute tourbillion held in crystal plates and an 18K pink gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breguet wood box and Certificate of Origin. Three-body, solid, polished, glazed on both sides, curved bezel, coin-edge band, straight lugs, transparent back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Off-center, crystal with applied pink gold round hour indexes, applied pink gold brushed signature plaque, tourbillion aperture with brushed pink gold frame. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 558SQ2, hand-finished, skeletonized brushed and polished steel, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, white metal alloy self-compensating Breguet balance spring, three equidistant-arm polished steel tourbillion cage held between two crystal plates, one rotating to give impulse to the tourbillion, seconds pointer on one arm. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 41 mm. THICKNESS 10 mm.