Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 274

Breitling Chronomat Breitling, 1884, "Chronomat", case No. 3203, Ref. A 13050.1. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down protected windingcrown, screwed-down case back with embossed logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver, inner guilloche decoration, with applied steel baton indexes, luminous dots, minute and 1/5th seconds division, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer scale, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman