Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 276

Breitling Yellow Gold Breilting Navitimer Olympus Breitling, 1884, "Navitimer ?Chronograph-Certified Chronometer", No 16/100, case No. 246209, Ref. K19340. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces circa 2003. Fine and rare, oversized, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter and tachometer, annual calendar with moon phases, slide rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, guarantee, certificate and instruction booklets.

C. Three-body, polished, bi-directional revolving ribbed bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back with conversion scales, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color, matte silver and champagne with applied gold baton indexes, luminous dots, sunk guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, month, aperture for the moon phases, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer and the slide-rule. Luminous gold épée hands. M. Cal. 19, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman