123,750 CHF
"Tourbillon Chronographe" Breguet, "Tourbillon Chronographe", No. 3206, Ref. 3577. Made in 2002. Very fine, rare and important, 18K pink gold gentleman’s wristwatch with visible oneminute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, registers and an 18K pink gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. Two-body, solid, polished, reeded band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Hand guilloché, silver with painted radial Roman numerals on outer plain reserves, outermost minute and 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, aperture for the tourbillon cage at 12 under a polished two-arm steel bridge, subsidiary seconds hand on the tourbillon shaft. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. Cal. 554.2, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also engraved “Brevet du 7 Messidor An 9”. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes What is a Tourbillon ? A Tourbillon is a regulating mechanism in which the escapement of a movement is housed within a revolving carriage. It was developed in an effort to attain better precision. When a watch is in a vertical position, the force of gravity will speed the balance wheel as it moves in its downward (arc)
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
