Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 189

Breguet Type 11 and Type 12 Aircaft Dashboard Clocks Breguet, Type 11 and Type 12. Made in the 1950s. Two, fine black-painted aluminium dashboard aviator?s clocks with chronograph and 15-minute registers. To be sold without reserve

Type 11 : C. Oxidized with four fixing holes, revolving bezel graduated from 1 to 60, winding crown, chronograph and hand-setting buttons below the dial. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary 15-minute register. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal 551, 18"' nickel plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement with monometallic balance, self compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 61 mm. Type 12 : C. Oxidized with four fixing holes, revolving bezel graduated from 1 to 60, winding crown, chronograph, reset and handsetting buttons below the dial. D. Black with luminous Arabic quarter-hour numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary 15-minute register. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal 555, 18"' nickel plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement with monometallic balance, self compensating Breguet balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 61 mm.