460,000 HKD
Breguet, Grand Complication "Tourbillon 1801-2001", No. 866, Ref. 1801. Produced expressly in a special edition in 2001 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the invention of the tourbillon by Abraham- Louis Breguet. Extremely fine, rare and important, large, hunter case-type, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a special fitted box, a tourbillon certificate and a loupe. Four-body, solid, polished and brushed, hinged "guilloché"- decorated cover with porthole and engraved "Tourbillon" plaque, openedby a co-axial push-button in the winding crown, transparent case back to view the movement, reeded band, straight lugs with goldscrewedbars, sapphire crystals. Silvered gold, "guilloché" off-center dial with painted radial Roman numerals set within a silveredgold plate with "fausses côtes" decoration, engraved "1801 - 2001". Blued steel "Breguet" hands. At 6, the visible tourbillon cage undera polished steel bridge, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. Cal. 557, entirely hand-engraved and signed "Tourbillon Breguet Nr.1887. Brevet du 7 Messidor ans 9", 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polishedsteel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 42 mm. Notes On June 26, 1801-or
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
