$49,560
"Tourbillon - Power Reserve" Breguet, "Tourbillon - Power Reserve", No. 2579, Brevet du 7 Messidor, An 9, Ref. 3657. Made circa 2000. Very fine, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 55-hour power reserve sector, retrograde 24-hour indicator and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with signature on the edge, reeded band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain eccentric ring dial, secret Breguet signature, aperture for the tourbillon at 6 under a steel bridge, subsidiary seconds on the tourbillon shaft, sectors for the power reserve and the retrograde 24 hour indicator. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. No. 699, Cal. 560, gilt brass, hand-engraved, 24 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Property of a West Coast Collector Notes Breguet The Breguet company was founded in Paris in 1775 by a watchmaker of genius, Abraham Louis Breguet, who was born in Neuchatel in 1747. Breguet set up his business concentrating on engineering at the expense of superfluous decoration, he sought to create a new style of watch in which
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-06-14
