Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 19

Breitling Chronomat Limited Edition ? Royal Air Force Hong Kong Breitling, "Chronomat Royal Air Force Hong Kong 1924- 1997", No. 70/97, Ref. A 13050.1. Made in a limited edition of 97 examples in 1997 to commemorate the end of the Royal Air Force Hong Kong Squadron. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down protected windingcrown, screwed-down case back with embossed map of Asia, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, the Royal Air Force Hong Kong logo, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm.