Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 74

Breitling Yellow Gold crosswind Breitling, "Crosswind, Chronograph Automatic?, No. 0027, Ref. K13055. Made circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute divisions, screw markers and quarter rider tabs, concave lugs, screwed-down case back embossed with the Breitling logo, screwed-down protected winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous yellow gold radial Roman numerals, luminous dots, black and gold subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost tachometer scale, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm.