Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 264

LIP Cosmonaute Navitimer Breitling Genève, "Cosmonaute Navitimer", retailed by LIP, Ref. 809. Made in the 1970's. Fine, large, stainless steel wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Bi-color black and silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the slide-rule and the telemeter. Tritium-coated white baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, blued steel flat balancespring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.