Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 69

?Left-handed Navitimer ? Breitling, Genève, "Navitimer - Chrono-Matic", Ref. 1806. Made in the 1970s. Fine, large, octagonal, left-handed, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule, date, winding-crown at 9 and the chronograph pushers at 2 and 4 and a Breitling stainless steel link bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, graduated revolving bi-directional black bezel, screwed-down case back, lapidated lugs. D. Bi-icolor black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12- hour register dials, outer graduations for the minutes, the telemeter and the sliderule, aperture for the date in red Arabic numerals. Luminous white "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 11, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 15 mm.