Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 25

BREITLING COSMONAUTE NAVITI MER 24H Breitling, Genève, Ref. 809.4 No.1164037 "Cosmonaut Navitimer 24h". Made in the 1970s. Fine, large, gold-plated and stainless steel wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, telemeter and slide-rule. Accompanied by a period Breitling presentation case, factory case-back sticker and issue number 37 of International Wristwatch magazine. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, bi-directional revolving reeded bezel, facted lugs, stainless steel back. D. Bi-color black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the telemeter, outermost silver scale for the sliderule revolving with the bezel. Luminous gilt baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41.5 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.