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Found this online and thought I'd throw it up here as a reference tool for others. This is essentially from Investcorp's purchase through Swatch which kept the system.

Anything from the Roth/Chaumet Era is considered "Pre-A" and highly desirable and would run from 1975-1986 (Roth stayed until 1988)

From 1970-72 Breguet was essentially dead and selling old stock. The Chaumet brothers bought the IP from George Brown for some ridiculously small amount of money and sold it for $45M in '87.

The Browns owned Breguet from 1870-1970. IMO their best watches were during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. There are also some excellent examples in mid 20th century with the OG Type XX in '53 and and the "Empire" watch but they mostly followed the fashion of the times with some tanks and chronos and what not.

Reference Note: The Breguet Empire is a rare, mid-20th-century dress watch (produced from the 1940s through the 1960s) featuring an 18k gold coin-edge case, hand-finished guilloché dial, and legendary observatory-grade movements like the Peseux 260

Mod Note: Just want to say you guys are awesome, the sub runs itself basically and with very little drama. Keep it up!

A FINE AND RARE WHITE GOLD MINUTE-REPEATING WRISTWATCH WITH BRACELET

REF 3877 NO 4524 CIRCA 1995

white gold

diameter 36 mm, bracelet circumference approx. 195 mm

• Cal. 567 2T manual-winding nickel lever movement, 30 jewels, minute repeating on two gongs
• silvered guilloché dial, painted Roman numerals, blued steel Breguet hands
• 18k white gold case, minute repeating slide on the fluted band, straight parallel lugs, screw-down sapphire crystal case back
• case, dial, and movement signed
• with an 18k white gold Breguet bracelet with folding clasp

Estimate 20-30,000 CHF

Sold Sotheby's 16 Nov. 2016 for 52,500 CHF or USD ( CHF/USD was essentially at parity in Nov 2016)

Hi all, just throwing up a shout to a book I just finished. From an art history perspective, the book spends a great deal of time on the early Renaissance and the artists who lived by the patronage of the once mighty Medici dynasty.

For me, an interesting part of art history is the political, social and economic contexts in which those movements arose. It gives it all a bit more life and flavor.

Anyhoo, totally worth the read/listen. Strathern does a great job of keeping your attention with witty anecdotes and interesting back stories. A far cry from your average history text. Not that different from how Vasari peppers in anecdotes in his "Lives..." but far more interesting.