Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 533

Left-Handed Chronomatic Limited Edition Breitling, ?Chrono-Matic Chronographe Certifie Chronometre?, No. 005/100, Ref. K41350. Made in a limited edition of 100 in 2003. Sold on February 5th, 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, date, tachometer, sliderule, with winding crown at 9 and the chronograph pushers at 2 and 4, and an 18K yellow gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box, certificate, booklets and chronometer certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving serrated bezel for operating the slide rule, screwed-down case back, lapidated concave lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the minutes and fifths of a second, the tachometer and the slide-rule, date aperture. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Rhodium-plated and gilt brass, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.