$116,400
Breguet Platinum Skeletonized Tourbillon Breguet, "Tourbillon Squelette Perpetuel", no. 1682 X, movement No. 3968, Ref. 3755. Made in the 2000's. Very fine, rare and important limited series platinum cased wristwatch with skeletonized pink movement, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar with retrograde date and a platinum Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, reeded band with inset calendar adjusters, straight lugs with screw bars, glazed case back, sapphire crystals. Skeletonized with off-center silver ring dial, painted radial Roman numerals for the hours, minutes and concentric upper half retrograde date, silver ring dials for the months at 3 combined with leap year indicator and the days of the week at 9, 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 Tourbillon Regulator? 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) direction and slow it as it moves upward, creating deviational errors of timekeeping. By placing the balance and escapement in a carriage Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-12-09
