Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 72

"Stainless Steel Blackbird" Breitling, "Blackbird - Chronograph - Chronometer", Automatic, Special Edition, Ref. A 13353. Made circa 2005. Fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 m, stainless steel gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, brushed, screwed-down case back and crown with embossed logo, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel with rider tabs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous white Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds chronograph scale and tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous white "baton" hands. M. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm.