98,400 CHF
Platinum Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Breguet, "Tourbillon Perpetuel", No. 1933, Ref. 3755. Made circa 2005. Very fine and rare, large, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breguet fitted burr-walnut box, platinum setting pin and short chain, Certificate of Origin and instructions. Three-body, solid, polished, coin-edge band, straight lugs with platinum screwed bars, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Silver hand-guilloche with off-center brushed chapter ring with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, dot minute divisions and the retrograde date at 12, brushed ring dials for the months at 3 and the days of the week at 9, leap year indication at 3, retrograde 30-seconds graduation at 6, aperture for the tourbillon cage with brushed steel bridge carrying a blued steel double-ended seconds hand at 6. Blued steel Breguet, arrow and serpentine hands. Cal. 558.1, rhodium-plated and hand-engraved, 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with oneminute tourbillon regulator with three equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to six positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm. 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 account Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
