Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, May 08, 2010
Breitling Cosmonaute Navitimer Breitling, Genève, "Cosmonaut Navitimer 24h", Ref. 809.4. Made in the 1970s. Fine, large, gold-plated and stainless steel wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and a gold-plated Breitling buckle. To be sold without reserve
C. Three-body, polished, bi-directional revolving reeded bezel, facted lugs, stainless steel back. D. Bi-color black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the telemeter, outermost silver scale for the slide-rule revolving with the bezel. Luminous gilt baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41.5 mm. Thickness: 13 mm. New old stock
