Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 209

BREGUET PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Breguet, Chronograph, Quantieme Perpetuel, movement No. 1255, case No. 1348 F, Ref. 3617. Sold on July 8th, 1994. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, leap year indication and an 18K yellow gold Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breguet box, push-pin, Certificate of Origin and instruction manual

C. Three-body, polished, rounded bezel, coin-edge band, straight lugs, correctors on the band, screwed bars, transparent back, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone hand-guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain brushed reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds concentric with days of the week, 30-minute register concentric with date, the months and the leap year, outer 1/5th of second/minute track, aperture for the phases of the moon with lunar calendar on the edge. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 13?, Cal. 533 QP, rhodium-plated, 21 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 38 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.