506,220 HKD
“Sapphire Chronograph” Breguet, No. 1023, made for a Southeast Asian Royal Family, circa 1980. Unique and extremely fine, 18K gold sapphire and diamond-set, self-winding chronograph dress watch with chonograph, 12-hour register and instantaneous 30-minute register. Three-piece, glazed back, band, bezels, and bow set with sapphires, winding crown and chronograph pushbuttons with diamonds. Mother of pearl, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, engine-turned center with three subsidiary dials, 30-minute register at 12, 12-hour register at 6, subsidiary seconds at 3. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. Caliber 576, rhodium-plated, “oeil-de-perdrix”, 37 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance with self-compensating flat balance-spring studded to friction-fit bracket for easy beat adjustment, gold bi-directional rotor. Signed on dial, case and movement. Diam. 47 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes This exceptional watch, also a magnificent piece of jewelry with engine-turned motherof- pearl dial was made, with no expenses spared, for a Southeast Asian Royal family.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
