Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 77

Breitling Montbrillant Eclipse Special Series Breitling, "Montbrillant Eclipse Automatic, Serie Speciale", No. 038, Ref. H43030. Made circa 2000. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold, water-resistant, self-winding chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, telemeter, slide-rule, date, moon phases, mnemonic world-time chart and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Breitling box.

C. Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving reeded bezel, faceted lugs, screw-down back engraved with the Breitling logo and world-time mnemonic chart aoround the border, sapphire crystal. D. Black with large luminous Arabic numerals, outer fifths of a second divisions and telemeter scale, outermost slide-rule on a silver ring revolving with the bezel, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, apertures for the date and moon phases. Luminous yellow gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 43 based on Valjoux 7758, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 15 mm.