Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 22

Breitling Stainless Steel ?Premier? Chronograph Breitling, Genève, "Premier," case No. 578936, Ref. 787. Made in the early 1950s. Fine, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, stepped inclined bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte silver with printed Arabic numerals and round indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, outermost tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 178, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.