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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 377

Air 04 Breitling, 1884, ?Navitimer Air 04?, No. 112/307, case No. 2014318, Ref. A41322. Made in a limited series of 307 examples for an American flight race in 2004, sold on September 4, 2004. Fine and rare, large, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, slide-rule, date and a Breitling stainless steel buckle. Accompanied by a Breitling guarantee (now void), instructions, certificate of limited series and chronometer certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, revolving reeded slide-rule bezel, screwed-down case back with limited series engraving, lyre lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone gray and silver with luminous baton indexes with luminous 12 Arabic numeral, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and seconds, outer graduations for the minutes and 5ths of a second, the tachometer, slide-rule on an inclined silvered reserve revolving with the bezel, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 23, rhodium plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.