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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 491

Platinum Navitimer Breitling, ?Navitimer Airborne?, No. 59/100, Ref. L33030. Made in a limited series of 100 examples in the 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, slide rule and an 18K white gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a wooden Breitling box and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved and facetted lugs, reeded revolving bezel for the slide rule, screwed-down case back engraved with the Breitling logo and with ?Airborne Platine, Serie Limitée?. D. Two-tone, blue and silver, applied white gold luminous baton indexes, outer graduation for the minutes/seconds and 1/5th seconds, outermost graduations for the slide rule and the tachometer, subsidiary dials for seconds, 10 minutes, 3 hours and the day of the month. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance-spring, shock absorber, micrometric regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.