62,400 CHF
Tourbillon - Power Reserve Breguet, "Tourbillon - Power Reserve", No. 2656, Brevet du 7 Messidor, An 9, Ref. 3657. Made in 2002. Very fine, 18K yellow gold 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 a certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, reeded band, rounded bezel, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. Guilloche 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. 1003, 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. 40 mm. Thickness 11 mm. 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 beauty was purely functional and no concessions were made to fashion. This uncompromising style soon fou Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
