Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 207

?Automatic? Breguet, No. 1548. Made in the 1970s. Very fine and elegant, extra-thin, selfwinding, 18K yellow gold mid-sized gentleman's wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, rounded bezel, flat sapphire crystal. D. ?Guilloché? silvered 18K gold with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, outermost minute divisions. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 12???, rhodium plated, ?fausses cotes? decoration, 35 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness 5 mm.