Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 20

Breitling Chronomat Limited Edition The Red Arrows Breitling, "The Red Arrows Chronomat Serie Limitee", No. 0685/1965, Ref. A 13050.1. Made in a limited edition of 1965 examples in 1996 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Red Arrows team. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down protected windingcrown, screwed-down case back with embossed Red Arrows logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. D. Red with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, black subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, the Red Arrrows logo, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous steel 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.