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Breguet. A fine and very rare platinum jumping and wandering hour open face keyless lever dress watchBreguet, Brevet S.G.D.G, No.1808, Circa 1928
11 June 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £16,250 inc. premium
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Breguet. A fine and very rare platinum jumping and wandering hour open face keyless lever dress watch
Breguet, Brevet S.G.D.G, No.1808, Circa 1928
19-jewel nickel-finished lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, two-tone silvered matt dial, outer Arabic minute ring, wandering central disc with engine-turned arrow, aperture for the jumping Arabic hours, platinum circular case, snap on back, case numbered 1808, dial and movement signed and numbered 43mm diam.
19-jewel nickel-finished lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, two-tone silvered matt dial, outer Arabic minute ring, wandering central disc with engine-turned arrow, aperture for the jumping Arabic hours, platinum circular case, snap on back, case numbered 1808, dial and movement signed and numbered 43mm diam.
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The "wandering hour" dial first appeared in the 17th century. In the 1920s and 1930s Breguet sold wandering hour watches with a system patented by the Swiss watchmaker Robert Cart around 1925.
A similar watch is illustrated in Breguet - Watchmakers Since 1775 by Emmanuel Breguet, p.316.
























