Breguet Ref 3400 – Horloger de la Marine in 18K white gold – 35.5mm – Full Set
| BRAND: |
BREGUET |
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MODEL: |
HORLOGER DE LA MARINE – REFERENCE 3400 |
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YEAR: |
CONTEMPORARY |
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MATERIAL: |
18K WHITE GOLD |
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SIZE – DIAMETER EXCLUDING WINDING CROWN: |
35.5MM |
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SIZE – LENGTH INCLUDING LUGS: |
42.5MM |
| CONDITION: |
VERY GOOD |
| BOX: | YES |
| PAPER: | YES |
| PRICE: |
$8,950 |
Mythic Breguet Ref 3400 – Horloger de la Marine in 18K white gold – 35.5mm – Full Set
Top of the art Breguet reference 3400 “Horloger de la Marine” with round two tons dial, inside with a white guilloche and gray outer ring with black Arabic numerals. The window for the date is at 6 o’clock. At 12 o’clock is engraved “Breguet 5560”. The design and style of the watch is half a dressy and half a sporty watch, real beautiful job. It is a “SWISS Guilloche Main” model. Of course, the watch comes with blue “Breguet” hands style with indirect swipe second. The “Breguet” crown is everything on this watch. It is a screwed 18K white gold back case with engraved outside “Breguet Automatic - 55601 – Horloger de la Marine”. The watch has an automatic movement with caliber 889/1. The watch comes with a handmade black alligator strap and an original Breguet double clasp buckle in 18K white gold with engraved inside “BREGUET Swiss Made”. Width between lugs is 20mm. It comes with the original box and paper.
History
Abraham Louis Breguet was born in 1747 from a French family in Neuchatel, the genius of all master watchmakers. He started his shop in Paris in 1775 and was forced to leave during the revolution. He came back to Paris in1795. Breguet watches were for the prince, tsars, emperors or kings. You even find the Breguet name in the French literature. Inventions are enormous, like the ultimate pocket-watches, the selfwinding “Montres Perpetuelles”, the tact watches, the tourbillon, the Breguet balance spring to name a few. The height of his achievement was the Marie-Antoinette watch in which he combined all the complications. He died in 1823 and then Antoine Louis and Louis Breguet ran the company. In 1870, the works foreman Edward Brown took over the company and 100 years later, it was acquired by the Chaumet’s brothers. Since 1999 the company is owned by the Swatch group. Under their aegis, in 2006, Breguet produced a brilliant double tourbillon.
Technical details
Breguet automatic movement with caliber 889/1. 21K gold rotor wind movement, rodhium-plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, glucydur balance, shock protection for balance.
Measurements
Diameter excluding winding crown: 35.5mm
Length including lugs: 42.5mm
