$107,800
Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel Breguet, "Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel", No. 2779, Ref. 3755. Made in 2000. Very fine and rare, large, skeletonized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Two-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Skeletonized with off-center silver ring dial with painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, minutes and the retrograde date at 12, silver ring dials for the months at 3 and the days of the week at 9, leap year indication at 3, retrograde 30-seconds graduation at 6, aperture for the tourbillon cage with hand-engraved steel bridge carrying a blued steel double seconds hand at 6. Blued steel Breguet, arrow and serpentine hands. Notes What is a Perpetual Calendar? Aperpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by accounting for the varying durations of each month, as well as self-correcting for the 29th of February during leap years. Audemars Piguet are said to have been the first to produce wristwatches with perpetual calendar and moon phases, in 1924. In 1925, Patek Philippe modified a lady’s pendant watch with perpetual calendar to produce the world’s first instantaneous changing perpetual calendar wristwatch with l
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
