Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 160

Stainless Steel ?Cosmonaute? Breitling, Genève, "Cosmonaute", Chronomètre Automatic Flyback Chronograph. Made in 2005. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round-button flyback chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule, date, a quartz watch integrated into the strap for a second time-zone and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, screwed-down case back with graduation, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, ?guilloché? subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the slide-rule and the telemeter, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 22, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.