Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 108

Breitling Flying B Breitling, ?for Bentley, Flying B Chronometer, Officially Certified Chronometer?, case No. 2157738, Ref A28362. Made in 2006. Fine, oversized, rectangular curved, jump-hour, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with regulator type dial and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, chronometer attestation, user's manual, and 2 year guarantee.

C. Two-body, polished, screwed-down winding crown, case back with 8 screws and embossed with the Bentley logo, lapidated lugs, anti-reflective sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver and blue on a textured "Silver Storm" plate with applied stainless steel and mother-of-pearl baton indexes, outer minute divisions with 5-minute Arabic hour markers, subsidiary guilloché seconds dial, aperture for the jump-hours at 12. Stainless steel skeleton hand. M. Cal. 16 B, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41 x 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm.