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Lot 34 · Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」

dent, london [ dent,倫敦] | a highly important, large and heavy ultra-complicated gold double dialled perpetual calendar keyless lever minute repeating grande and petite sonnerie clock watch with equation of time, signs of the zodiac, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, moon phases with apparition of the big dipper/plough at alternate black moons circa 1904, no. 32573 [ 極罕有大型超複雜功能黃金雙錶盤萬年曆三問大小自鳴懷錶備時間等式、黃道十二宮、日出日落及月出月落時間、月相顯示及北斗七星顯現期,年份約1904,編號32573]

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CHF 300,000–CHF 500,000 hammer ≈ $316,544–$527,573
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Sotheby's — Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」, Geneva · 16 June 2020
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TB-2026-4830018
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London Dent, dent, london [ dent,倫敦] | a highly important, large and heavy ultra-complicated gold double dialled perpetual calendar keyless lever minute repeating grande and petite sonnerie clock watch with equation of time, signs of the zodiac, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, moon phases with apparition of the big dipper/plough at alternate black moons circa 1904, no. 32573 [ 極罕有大型超複雜功能黃金雙錶盤萬年曆三問大小自鳴懷錶備時間等式、黃道十二宮、日出日落及月出月落時間、月相顯示及北斗七星顯現期,年份約1904,編號32573]. Sotheby's, 16 Jun 2020, lot 34. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4830018.

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London Dent, dent, london [ dent,倫敦] | a highly important, large and heavy ultra-complicated gold double dialled perpetual calendar keyless lever minute repeating grande and petite sonnerie clock watch with equation of time, signs of the zodiac, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, moon phases with apparition of the big dipper/plough at alternate black moons circa 1904, no. 32573 [ 極罕有大型超複雜功能黃金雙錶盤萬年曆三問大小自鳴懷錶備時間等式、黃道十二宮、日出日落及月出月落時間、月相顯示及北斗七星顯現期,年份約1904,編號32573]. Sotheby's, 16 Jun 2020, lot 34. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4830018.

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From the same sale Masterworks of Time: Abraham Louis Breguet, Horologist Extraordinaire 「時間傑作——阿伯拉罕・路易・寶璣:鐘錶鬼才」 · Jun 2020

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