Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 219

BREGUET SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH STOP-WATCH Breguet, movement no. 1799492. Made circa 1950. Fine and rare, large, keyless, chromed, split-seconds chronograph stopwatch with instantaneous 30-minute register.

Four-body, chromed, polished. Hinged steel cuvette. White with painted black Arabic numerals for 0-30, 1/10th of a second track and inner red Arabic numerals for 30-60 minutes, subsidiary 30-minute register dial. Blued steel hand, gilt split-seconds hand. Cal. 24''', gilt brass, straight-line lever escapement, fast-beating monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.