Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 117

Yellow Gold ?Navitimer?- Serie Speciale Breitling, ?Navitimer?, case No. K13019. Made as part of a special series in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, chronometer, 18K yellow gold aviator's wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter, slide rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, straight lugs with faceted sides, dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone gold with applied gold baton indexes, sunk guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the minutes, the tachometer, the telemeter and the slide-rule. Luminous steel "baton" hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped ?B? counterweight and red arrow. M. Cal. 7750, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.