Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 51

?Aeronavale? ?Aéronavale? Breguet, ?Type XX, Aéronavale, Automatique?, Ref 3800. Made in the 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with ?retour en vol? round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Breguet deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back and crown, graduated bi-directional revolving bezel, reeded band, sapphire crystal. D. Black with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and applied white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and the 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Tritium-coated white gold ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 582Q, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial and case signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm.