Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 439

Navitimer Breitling, Genève, "Navitimer ? Automatic," Ref. 1806. Made in the 1970s. Fine and unusual, large, octagonal, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule, date, winding crown at 9 and the chronograph pushers at 2 and 4 o'clock, and a stainless steel Breitling link bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, reeded black bezel, screwed-down case back, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer graduations for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide-rule, aperture for the date in red Arabic numerals. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 11, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 14 mm.