Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 51

"Aéronavale" Breguet, "Type XX ? Aéronavale?, Automatic, Ref 3800, No. 24738. Made in the 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with fly-back round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Breguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate and 2 additional straps.

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back and crown, graduated uni-directional revolving bezel, reeded band, domed sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and the 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 582Q, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm.