Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 27

Breitling Limited Edition Navitimer Rattrapante Etanche Breitling "Navitimer Rattrapante Etanche", No 49/100, Ref. H34030. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples in 1996. Fine and rare, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with split-second round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, date and slide-rule with no less than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942), with an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, faceted lugs, screw-down back embossed with the Navitimer logo, sapphire crystal. D. Satine dark blue and matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and square indexes, luminous dots, guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and the 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the telemeter and the slide-rule, date aperture between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands, the main chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight while the flyback hand is a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 34, 11 1/2???, rhodium-plated, 39 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, antishock system, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm