Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 34

Breitling Old Navitimer Breitling, Genève, ?Old Navitimer?, case No. 8765, Ref. A13022. Sold on January 11th, 2001. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter ,slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, certificate and booklets. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back with embossed logo and engraved temperature conversion scale from Celsius to Fahrenheit, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated steel bezel, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied baton indexes, luminous dots, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, tachometer and telemeter graduation and slide-rule. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. based 7750, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41.5 mm. Thickness 14 mm.