$64,900
“Grand Complication - Tourbillon 1801-2001" Breguet, “Grand Complication - Tourbillon 1801-2001", No. 763, Ref. 1801. Made expressly in 2001 in a special edition to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the invention of the tourbillon by Abraham-Louis Breguet. Accompanied by a fitted box and instruction booklet. Extremely fine, rare and important, large, half-hunter-cased, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Breguet deployant clasp. Four-body, solid, polished and brushed, hinged "guilloche" cover with porthole and engraved "Tourbillon" plaque, opened by a coaxial pushbutton in the winding crown, transparent case back to view the movement, reeded band, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Silvered gold, "guilloche" eccentric radial chapter ring set within a silvered gold plate with "fausses côtes" decoration, engraved "1801 - 2001". Blued steel "Breguet" hands. At 6, the visible tourbillon cage under a polished steel bridge, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. Cal. 557, entirely hand-engraved and signed "Tourbillon Breguet Nr. 1825 - Brevet du 7 Messidor an 9", 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes Breguet’s Tourbillon On June 2
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-09-26
