Details
CIRCA: 1924, sold on 20 August 1924 for 6,500 French Francs
CASE MATERIAL: 18K white gold
CASE SIZE: 43 mm. diam.
DIAL: Matte silvered, Breguet numerals
MOVEMENT: Manual
FUNCTIONS: Perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year indicator
WITH: Breguet Certificate No. 4057 dated 14 April 1991 confirming sale of watch no. 449, white gold with perpetual calendar, moon phases, blued steel Breguet hands, on 20 August 1924 to Sir Dinsahw Petit for the sum of 6,500 Francs. Furthermore delivered with a later added stainless steel chain.
Provenance
The Art of Breguet, Antiquorum, Geneva, 14 April 1991, lot 134
Special notice
This lot is subject to standard Swiss VAT rules and 7.7% VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ and the ‘buyer’s premium’
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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.

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