Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 223

BREGUET REF. 3800, TYPE XX AERONAVALE STEEL Breguet, "Aeronavale Type XX," Automatic, No. 30119, Ref. 3800. Made circa 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers and a stainless steel Breguet deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished, concave curved lugs, coin-edge band, graduated bidirectional revolving bezel with arrow, screw- down case back and winding crown, sapphire crystal. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute/ seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 60-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. Cal. 5820, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed.