Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 244

Pink Gold & Platinum ?Commemorer A.L. Breguet? Thomas Engel, No. 10, the movement by IWC, Probus Scafusia, No. 1068651. ?Dessiné par TH. Engel Pour Commemorer A.L. Breguet?, made in the 1980s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold and platinum, keyless, dress watch with eccentric regulator dial. Accompanied by a Thomas Engel brass-bound mahogany box, spare mainspring, and spare crystal.

C. Three-body, "Empire", platinum band, the back cover engine-turned, polished band and bezel, ball-type swiveling pendant acting as the winding crown. Glazed cover over the movement. D. Matte silver, regulator type, eccentric hour chapter with radial Roman numerals set to the left, subsidiary seconds below, outer minute chapter with dot divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, center and outermost border engine-turned. Blued-steel ?Breguet? hands. M. 40 mm, frosted gilt, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, self-compensating blued steel balance-spring with outer terminal curve, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Movement signed IWC. Diam. 55 mm. Property of an Italian Gentleman