Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 74

"The Flying B" Breitling, for Bentley, ?Flying B Chronometer", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. 2154743, case No. A 28362. Made in 2006. Fine and rare, oversized, rectangular curved, jump-hour, selfwinding, water resistant, stainless steel gentleman's chronometer wristwatch with a stainless steel Breitling link bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box, warranty and chronometer certificate.

C. Two-body, polished, screwed-down winding crown, case back with 8 screws and embossed with the "Bentley" logo, lapidated lugs, antireflective sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver and anthracite on a textured "Silver Storm" plate with stainless steel and mother-of-pearl baton indexes, outer minute divisions with 5-minute Arabic hour markers, subsidiary guilloché seconds dial, aperture for the jump-hours at 12. Stainless steel "skeleton" hand. M. Cal. 16 B, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41 x 57 mm. Thickness 14 mm.