Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 13

Breitling, Genève, "Chrono-Matic", case No. 1288990, Ref. 2116. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, cushion-shaped, selfwinding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with left-handed crown, round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer and pulsometer scales.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, inverted bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Bicolor black and matte yellow with applied luminous blackened yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer 1/5th seconds scale, outermost tachometer and pulsometer scales, aperture for the date. Luminous blackened yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 11, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel flat balance spring, micro-rotor housed within the movement. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.