Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 299

"Chronographe Automatique Marine" Breguet, Horloger de la Marine, ?Marine?, No. 258, Ref. 2581. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 50 meters, 18K white gold and diamond mid-sized wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, 42-hour autonomy and an 18K white gold Breguet bracelet with double deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, bezel set with 50 round diamonds, ridged band, straight lugs each set with 4 round diamonds, gold screwed bars, protected winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone guilloché, silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a mother-of-pearl reserve, subsidiary mother- of-pearl ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 576, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.