Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 38

Stainless Steel Split-Seconds Breitling, Genève, case No. 761318, Ref. 791. Made in the 1960s. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, antimagnetic stainless steel wristwatch, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, tachometer and stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, rounded bezel, co-axial single button on the winding-crown, screw-down case back with engraved ?Waterproof, Shock-Protected, Antimagnetic?. D. Matte silver with applied luminous Arabic numerals, black minute and 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer black tachometer scale. Blued steel feuille hands. M. 13''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Property of Various Owners Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.