Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 22

Breitling Chronomat Limited Edition Breitling Blue Impulse Jet Team Japan Breitling, "Chronomet Blue Impulse", No. 0684/1000, Ref. A 13048. Made in a limited edition of 1000 examples in 1994 to commemorate the Breitling Blue Impulse Jet team Japan. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box. To be sold without reserve

CHF 2,200 - 3,500

USD 2,100 - 3,300 / EUR 1,500 - 2,500

Sold: CHF 1,920

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down protected winding-crown, screwed-down case back with embossed Blue Impulse logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. D. Silver with guilloche sunray pattern with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, blue subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, the Blue Impulse 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 14.5 mm. Approx. overall length 170 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Blue Impulse or 11 Squadron, is the aerobatic demonstration team of theJapan Air Self ?Defense Force. Originally formed in 1960 as a team of six F-86 Sabres, the team switched to the Mitsubishi T-2 in 1980 and then the Kawasaki T-4 in 1995. They are based at Matsushima Air Base.