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Lot 429
BREGUET, 18K WHITE GOLD PERPETUAL CALENDAR KEYLESS LEVER DRESS WATCH, SOLD TO SIR HENRY DINSHAW PETIT
NO. 449
Fermé18 May 2021
Prix réalisé
CHF 18,750
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This highly elegant dress watch impresses with its very thin design, unusual for a perpetual calendar watch from the period.
It was sold to Sir Henry Dinshaw Petit on 20 August 1924, a considerable sum at the time.
Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet (born Dinshaw Maneckji Petit; 30 June 1823 – 5 May 1901), was a Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India. Part of the Petit family and the first baronet of Petit, he was the grandfather of Rattanbai Petit, wife of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
It was sold to Sir Henry Dinshaw Petit on 20 August 1924, a considerable sum at the time.
Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet (born Dinshaw Maneckji Petit; 30 June 1823 – 5 May 1901), was a Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India. Part of the Petit family and the first baronet of Petit, he was the grandfather of Rattanbai Petit, wife of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.