Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 81

Super Avenger Breitling, ?1884, Chronomètre, Automatic?, ?Super Avenger?, case No. 2200164, Ref. A 13370. Made circa 2005. Large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, custom diamond set dial and inner bezel, with stainless steel Breitling deployant buckle. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve The Billy Blanks Collection

C. Three-body, massive, polished, screw-down back with conversion scale for weights and measurements used in aviation, protected screw-down winding crown, uni-directional revolving graduated bezel with rider tabs, anti-reflective sapphire crystal. D. Custom mother-of-pearl effect with applied diamond-set indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost raised diamond set ring, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands, luminous red-tipped steel chronograph hand. M. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48.5 mm. Thickness 18.6 mm.