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Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
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Breguet
A LARGE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONISED KEYLESS ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON WATCH 1983-1984, REF. BA1820, NO. 4266 [寶璣BA1820型號大型黃金鏤空一分鐘陀飛輪懷錶，年份1983-1984，編號4266]
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November 12, 03:33 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CHF
Lot Details
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Breguet
A LARGE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONISED KEYLESS ONE-MINUTE TOURBILLON WATCH
1983-1984, REF. BA1820, NO. 4266
[寶璣BA1820型號大型黃金鏤空一分鐘陀飛輪懷錶，年份1983-1984，編號4266]
• Movement: gilded, highly decoratively engraved with scrolling foliage, one minute-tourbillon carriage with lever escapement and polished steel carriage, micrometer regulation, signed and numbered Breguet, no. 4266
• Dial: sapphire crystal, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds
• Case: gold, polished rounded bezels, milled band, both sides glazed, gold pendant and bow, front bezel and bow with Swiss hallmarks and French import marks
diameter 57mm
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Accompanied by a Breguet certificate dated 31 August 2020. The certificate confirms that both sides of the skeletonised movement were entirely engraved by hand and that the watch was made between 1983 and 1984.
Produced in the early 1980s, this watch dates to a period when traditional watchmakers were still reeling from the fallout of the Quartz Crisis. Towards the end of the 1970s and into the early 1980s, there was a recognition that skeletonised watches were an excellent means by which the finest makers could demonstrate the quality and exclusivity of their mechanical movements - placing the movement centre stage, rather than hidden behind a case back. The 1980s was also a decade in which the popularity of the tourbillon began to come to the fore, its mesmerizing action proving an irresistible draw for collectors and admirers of the traditional watchmaker's craft. Watches such as this asserted the prowess of their makers and displayed the manufacturer's confidence in the future of Haute Horlogerie and mecahnical time.