Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 331

"Type XX" Breguet, "Type XX", No. B 21620. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel militarytype aviator's wristwatch with "retour en vol" round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers and a black calibrated bezel.

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back, graduated bi-directional revolving bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 725, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm. To be sold without reserve