Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...

Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005

LOT 1

?Three-Tone Dial? Breitling, Swiss, No. 14399. Made circa 1925. Fine, Staybrite keyless dress watch with co-axial single button chronograph, register, tachymeter and telemeter.

CHF 3,000 - 4,000

EUR 2,000 - 2,600 / USD 2,300 - 3,000

Sold: CHF 3,450

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped inclined bezel. D. Three?tone silvered with painted Arabic numerals and baton indexes, inner spiral telemetric scale, outer minute track with concentric fifths of a second and telemeter scales, subsidiary seconds at 6 and 30-minute recording dial at 12. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 17???, rhodium plated, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed. Diam. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Staybrite is the name of a steel alloy containing 0.2% carbon, 18% chromium and 8% nickel. It is a stainless material that takes a fine polish and is therefore often used for making watch cases. It is probably the type of stainless steel that has been most widely used by watch companies, from the 1930s onwards.