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BREGUET. A FINE AND RARE PLATINUM LIMITED EDITION AUTOMATIC FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH WITH DATE, ORIGINAL BOX
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BREGUET. A FINE AND RARE PLATINUM LIMITED EDITION AUTOMATIC FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH WITH DATE, ORIGINAL BOX

SIGNED BREGUET, TYPE XX, TRANSATLANTIQUE EDITION LIMITEE MODEL, NO. 41/90, REF. 3827, MOVEMENT NO. 0’127’628, CASE NO.43’410, CIRCA 2003

Closed22 March 2019

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BREGUET. A FINE AND RARE PLATINUM LIMITED EDITION AUTOMATIC FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH WITH DATE, ORIGINAL BOX
SIGNED BREGUET, TYPE XX, TRANSATLANTIQUE EDITION LIMITEE MODEL, NO. 41/90, REF. 3827, MOVEMENT NO. 0’127’628, CASE NO.43’410, CIRCA 2003
Movement: Automatic, Cal. 582, 25 jewels, signed
Dial: Salmon dial with Arabic numerals, date, subsidiary dials for constant seconds, 3- minute and 12-hour registers, luminous accents, luminous hand, signed
Case: Platinum case, rotating bezel, two chronograph buttons in the band, sapphire case back, 39 mm. diam., signed
With: Platinum Breguet buckle, presentation box and outer packing

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Limited to only 90 examples, the present timepiece is offered in extremely good condition.

Based on Breguet most important historic designs, the “Type XX”, refer to one of the most iconic pilots wristwatch designed for the French Air Force. Back in the 1950s, the French Air Force Army commissioned Breguet and few other watchmakers to create a timepiece for their pilots. The watches are required to meet a few conditions which include a chronograph with a flyback function, this enabled pilot to reset the chronograph and restart immediately by using a single pusher, a 35 hours’ power reserve and luminous hands.