Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 210

"Cosmonaute Navitimer" Breitling Genève, "Cosmonaute Navitimer", Ref. 809. Made in the 1970s. Fine, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor black and silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the slide-rule and the telemeter. Tritium-coated white ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, blued steel flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.