![]() Foiled again!įoundational watch: delivery day wristshot of the Mathey-Tissot Type 20 Why it’s not a Type XX – but I don’t care So in December of 2018 I found myself at Christie’s in New York bidding on a Mathey-Tissot Type 20 against noted vintage dealer Eric Wind, who pushed well past the high estimate with his bids until I finally yielded. ![]() The best news: these pieces labeled with the brand of their actual maker sold for half, or less, the prices at auction enjoyed by the Breguet-branded pieces. I was starting to think I’d have to give up on my quest when in 2018 I learned something that savvy vintage collectors had known all along: the vintage Breguet-labeled Type XX watches (and the Girard-Perregaux examples as well) were manufactured by Mathey-Tissot, who had also made a small number of the same references under their own name. But I had another swing at Phillips’ famed “Winning Icons” auction of October 2017 at a second excellent example – which sold for even more than the Brabham watch. ![]() Sadly for me, that watch sold far above my budget. It’s good to be champ: case back of Jack Brabham’s Breguet Type XX (photo courtesy Phillips)
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