Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 128

Type 12 Aircraft Clock Breguet, ?Type 12?, Ref. 2629. Made in the 1950s. Fine and very rare, keyless clock for aeronautical use with chronograph and instantaneous 15-minute register.

C. Three-body, black patinated, secured by four screws to a black painted backplate, rotating bezel, winding crown and start/stop lever below the dial, lever for return-to-zero at 7, hand-setting lever at 5. D. Black with luminous Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions, outermost luminous fivesecond numerals and dot divisions on an inclined ring rotating with the bezel, subsidiary 15-minute register. Luminous white baton hands. M. Rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Dim. 114 x 68 mm.