Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 24

Chronograph Breitling, Genève, ?Chronograph?, case No. 462629. Made in the 1950s. Fine, water-resistant, antimagnetic, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, case back secured by 4 screws in the lugs. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds and 45-minute register, minute and 1/5th seconds track, concentric spiral tachometer scale, outer telemeter scale. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 14''', rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of Various Owners