Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 75

Breitling Spatiographe Montbrillant Special Series Breitling, "Spatiographe Montbrillant Automatic, Serie Speciale", case No. 2361, Ref. A36030.1. Made circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, special 10-minute totalizer, 3-hour register, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a Breitling fitted box. To be sold without reserve

CHF 2,900 - 4,300

USD 2,700 - 4,100 / EUR 2,000 - 3,000

Sold: CHF 2,640

C. Three-body, polished, faceted lugs, bidirectional revolving reeded slide-rule bezel, case back engraved with the Breitling Spatiographe logo. D. Black, sapphire crystal, with applied steel lozenge indexes and luminous squares, outer 1/5th seconds scale and sliderule revolving with the bezel, subsidiary dials for seconds and 3 hour register, aperture for the 10-minute totalizer at 9. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 36, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41.5 mm. Thickness 15 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

This model of Spatiographe was made between 1997 and 2002. It is a modern interpretation of the watch first produced in the 1950s. The unusual feature is the large 10-minute totalizer for very clear readouts of short timespans. This watch is of use to pilots who are timing instrument approaches and holding patterns. Bretling developed the caliber 36 movement especially for this watch.