Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 313

"Equation of Time" Breguet, "Equation of Time - Perpetual Calendar", Automatic, No. 6760, Ref 3477. Made circa 2000. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, equation of time, 45-hour power-reserve and an 18K yellow gold Breguet buckle. Accompanied by a fitted winding box and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, reeded band, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone "guilloché" silvered gold with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, subsidiary sectors for the equation of time and the up-and-down indication, subsidiary ring dials for the days of the month, the months and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week at 12, secret Breguet signature. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 502 QPET, gilt, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, off-center rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 8 mm.