64,900 HKD
Breguet, No. 1568. Made circa 1930. Very fine and rare, unusual, 18K gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with single button chronograph and progressive minute and hour register/second time zone dial. Four-body, “bassine” polished, chronograph and hand setting buttons in the band. Dedicated hinged gold cuvette. Frosted gilt, eccentric meantime dial with radial Roman numerals and outer minute track, independently adjustable second time zone/minute and hour recording dial with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, outer chronograph track with fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five second numerals. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 19’’’, frosted gilt, bar caliber, 15 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, extra wheel and bridge to drive the additional dial, straight line lever escapement, uncut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 53 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes To be sold without reserve The present watch has an independently adjustable second dial which can be used either as a progressive minute and hour register for the chronograph, or indeed as a secondary time zone dial provided that the chronograph is left in operation. The single chronograph button activates the start/stop and return to zero of the center hand and both hands of the register dial.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
