34,800 CHF
Breguet Quantieme Perpetuel chronograph Breguet, “Chronograph, Quantieme Perpetuel”, No. 3043 G, movement No. 1363, Ref. 3617. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, leap year indication and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and service documents. Two-body, polished, rounded bezel, reeded band, straight lugs, correctors on the band, screwed bars. Two-tone guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 30 minutes register, the days of the month, of the week, the months and the leap year, outer 1/5th of second/minute track, aperture for the age of the moon. 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:
2010-05-08
