Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 18

"Navitimer - Montbrillant ? Edition Speciale" Breitling, Genève, "Montbrillant", Certified Chronometer, "Special Edition - 100 Years Aviation 1903-2003", Automatic. Made in 2003. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, telemeter, tachometer, date and slide-rule with no less than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942) and a stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, concave lapidated lugs, screwed-down dedicated case back, domed sapphire crystal. D. Black and matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, "guilloché" subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel "baton" hands, the chronograph hand featuring a Breitling logo counterweight. M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.