Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 64

?Yacht Timer? Breitling Genève, "Yacht Timer", Ref. 72102. Produced in the mid 1980s. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date. Accompanied by instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, antimagnetic, screwed-down protected winding-crown and case back with embossed logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with 8 screws, engraved minute graduation, quarter-hour claws, tritiumcoated dot at 12 o'clock, sapphire crystal. D. Black with tritium-coated indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour register and a 10-minute yacht timer composed of a revolving disk indicating elapsed time divided into 5 minute segments, showing elapsed time by the minute, outer tachometer, concentric, the 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date. Tritium-coated white "baton" hands. M. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm.