Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 47

Yellow Gold "Navitimer? Breitling, "Navitimer - Chronographe Quantième Perpétuel Etanche?, No. 18/25. Produced in a limited edition of 25 pieces in 1993. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with moon phases, perpetual calendar, 52 weeks, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, slide rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, graduated bezel, screweddown case back with embossed logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor navy blue and matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials at 12 for the seconds, the 60-minute register, the 4 seasons and the days of the month; at 3 for the 52 weeks and the aperture for the moon phases; at 6 for the days of the week, the 12-hour register and the 24 hours; at 9 for the 30-minute register, the months and the leap year; outer tachometer graduation in miles and km and a logarithmic slide rule. Luminous yellow gold "épée" hands. M. Cal. 39, rhodium-plated, "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 37 jewels, monometallic balance, adjusted, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.