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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 402

?Navitimer? Breitling 1884, "Navitimer ? Chronographe Certifié Chronomètre", No. 568257, Ref. A19340. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, self-winding, waterresistant stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter and tachometer, annual calendar with moon phases, slide rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942) and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied steel baton indexes, "guilloché" silver subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, the week, month, aperture for the moon phase, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer and the sliderule. Luminous steel "bâton" hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchorshaped "B" counterweight. M. Cal. 19, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm.