Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 143

Yellow Gold 30-Seconds Chronograph Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors - 30- Seconds Chronograph, Officially Certified Chronometer?, No. 102, case No. 713937, Ref. K 25362. Made in a special edition in 2003 to commemorate Bentley's participation in the ?24 Hours of Le Mans? races and to celebrate its collaboration with Breitling. Fine, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a wooden Breitling box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley logo, helium escape valve, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color black and matte silver with yellow gold indexes and luminous square dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 25, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm