Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 210

Breguet, "Type XX", No. 5101/54 / 7230. Made in 1954. Fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel aviator?s wristwatch with round button "retour en vol" chronograph and register.

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back with Military Issue Marks, concave lugs, rotating bezel. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Luminous "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 222, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Case signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.