Rare Breguet watch nets £2.4m

A watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) became the second most expensive piece by the Swiss maker when it sold to a private Swiss museum for triple-estimate SFr3.25m (£2.35m) including premium at Christie’s Geneva.

The signed perpétuelle, self-winding watch No 217 offered at the auction on May 16, had a day and mo…

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