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SUMMARY:an-extremely-rare-18ct-pink-and-osmior-white-gold-rectangular-wrist
 watch-with-three-tone-dial - Date de vente : 09/11/2025
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : An extremely rare 18ct pink and Osmior white gold
  rectangular wristwatch with three-tone dial\n\n9’’’ circular moveme
 nt\, damascened Geneva striped decoration\, lever escapement\, jewelled to
  the centre\, jewelled lever pallets\, 17 jewels\, bi-metallic compensatio
 n balance\, blued steel hairspring with Breguet overcoil\, index regulator
 \, barrel bridge signed and numbered Breguet 1675\n\npink gilded dial\, sa
 tin finished silvered chapter ring for hours with blue enamel baton hour i
 ndexes\, matt grained silvered minute track with blue enamel calibrations\
 , white hands with squared tips\, white enamel cubistes Arabic numerals at
  12 and 6 o’clock\, signed and numbered Breguet 1675\, inside case numbe
 red 675 & 1675\, French eagle’s head assay mark\, indistinct maker’s l
 ozenge stamp\n\n18ct white gold rectangular case\, broad brancards with an
 gled ends\, crenelated lugs of alternating pink and white gold ridges\, sc
 rew-set bar lugs\, satin finished white gold square case back with inner y
 ellow gold framework to support movement\, case back exterior signed and n
 umbered Breguet 1675\n\nMeasurements\n\nlength 36mm\n\nwidth 23mm\n\ndepth
  including crystal 6mm\n\nweight including strap 29g\n\nAccompaniments\n\n
 with a Breguet 250th anniversary certificate\n\nMonsieur Petit\n\nAntiquor
 um Geneva\, The Art of Breguet\, 14 April 1991\, lot 160.\n\nSotheby’s N
 ew York\, 13 June 2007\, lot 32\n\nBarter\, A.\, Schnipper\, D.\, 500 Year
 s | 100 Watches\, London: Prestel\, 2019\, pp. 208-209.\n\nAt a time when 
 many wristwatches were still largely utilitarian in design\, this charisma
 tic example hinted at the aesthetic possibilities the new era of the wrist
 watch was beginning to herald. The growing demand for wristwatches during 
 the second half of the 1910s and the early 1920s coincided with the Art De
 co period\, an era that transformed watch design more generally.\n\nMade i
 n 1926\, this is an unusual and striking early wristwatch that embraces th
 e latest fashion for combining multiple colours and contrasting tones with
 in both case and dial. The case employs two colours of gold\, creating an 
 alternating crenellation of pink and white gold between the lugs\, while t
 wo strips of polished white gold frame the sides. This contrasting scheme 
 continues on the dial\, which features a pink-gilded metallic ground with 
 a silvered chapter ring. The larger Arabic numerals at 12 and 6 o’clock 
 are filled with white enamel\, while the minute and hour calibrations whic
 h have been engraved into the dial plate are inlaid with blue enamel in a 
 tone as rich as lapis lazuli. The hands are painted white for increased le
 gibility.\n\nAlthough reflecting the fashionable Art Deco aesthetic\, this
  avant-garde watch appears to have been somewhat ahead of its time\, remai
 ning unsold until September 1941\, when it was purchased by a Monsieur Pet
 it for 12\,500 French Francs.\n\nThe watch was created during the years wh
 en Breguet was owned by the Brown family. Having purchased the firm in 187
 0\, successive generations of the Browns guided Breguet through much of th
 e 20th century. During the inter-war years\, when only a small number of p
 ieces were produced\, the firm created some of its most innovative and ima
 ginative 20th century watches.
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