Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 501

Breitling Steel Montbrillant 1903 Breitling, ?Chronometre Certifie, Edition Special, 100 Ans Aviation, Automatic," case No. 702016, Ref. A 35330. Made in 2003 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first flight. Fine and rare, large, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942) and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, chronometer certificate, warranty (now void) and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bidirectional revolving reeded slide-rule bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, guilloché sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight and a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.