Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 16

"Navitimer? Breitling, Genève, "Navitimer - Automatic", Ref. 1806. Made in the 1970s. Fine and unusual, large, octagonal, selfwinding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and date, winding crown at 9 and the chronograph pushers at 2 and 4 o'clock.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, revolving reeded and graduated black bezel, screwed-down case back, lapidated lugs. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer graduations for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide-rule, aperture for the date in red Arabic numerals. Luminous white "baton" hands. M. Cal. 11, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 16 mm.