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

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.