Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 112

Breitling for Bentley, Pink Gold 6.75 Breitling for Bentley, "Bentley 6.75 Chronograph", No. 347/500, No. 2296562, Ref. H44363. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in pink gold in 2006 to celebrate the hand-assembled 6.75 litre Bentley Arnage Limousine engine. Very fine, oversized and heavy, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, variable tachometer slide-rule, large date and an 18K pink gold ?Speed? Breitling bracelet. Accompanied by a Breitling bakelite fitted box, Attestation de Chronomètre, Certificate of Authenticity, instruction booklet, and 2 year guarantee.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner variable tachometer slide-rule graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley wheel logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Tri-color black, silver and gilt with applied pink gold baton and luminous square indexes, minute and 1/4th seconds divisions, outer variable tachometer graduation, gilt subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the ?quantième à grands guichets? date. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 44B, certified by the COSC, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 17 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.