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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 124

Breguet, Grand Complication "Tourbil-lon 1801 - 2001", No. 928, Ref. 1801. Produced expressely in 2001 in a spe-cial edition to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the invention of the tourbillon by Abraham-Louis Breguet.Extremely fine, rare and important, large, hunter case-type, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K white gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and tourbillon certificate.

USD 70,000 - 90,000

C. four-body, solid, polished and brushed, hinged hand-"guilloché" cover with porthole and engraved "Tourbillon" plaque, opened by a co-axial push-button in the winding crown, transparent case back to view the movement, reeded band, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, sapphire crystals.D. silvered gold, "guilloché" off-center dial with painted radial Roman numerals set within a silvered gold plate with "fausses-côtes" decoration, engraved "1801 - 2001". "Breguet" blued steel hands. At 6 o'clock, the visible tourbillon cage under a polished bridge, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. M. Cal. 557 entirely hand-engraved and signed "Tourbillon Breguet Nr. 1958. Brevet du 7 Messidor ans 9", 21 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equi-distnt arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 42 mm.


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Case: 1

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Movement: 1

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Dial: 1 - 01

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