Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 422

Breitling Steel Chronograph Breitling, Swiss, ?Antimagnetic?, case No. 1225. Made circa 1940. Fine, nickel-plated and stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, lapidated concave lugs, snap-on steel case back. D. Matte silver with painted radial black Arabic 3 and 9 and yellow gold round indexes, outer black tachometer and red telemeter scale, 1/5th second track with 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 13???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.