Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 507

Breitling For Bentley, Yellow Gold Set Breitling for Bentley, "24 Heures du Mans". Made in a limited edition of 24 examples in yellow gold in 2003 to celebrate the partnership with Bentley Motors Inc. Accompanied by fitted box and box,certificate,warranty,cosc and instruction booklet for each watch.

A. Breitling for Bentley, "24 Heures du Mans?, No. 22/24, case No. 528689, Ref. K22362. Very fine and rare, oversized and heavy, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, 24 hour dial, slide-rule, date and an 18K yellow gold Breitling link bracelet with deployant clasp. C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner revolving slide-rule graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the ?Speed 8 Bentley? logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Silver with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost slide-rule graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 22, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.
B. Breitling for Bentley, "24 Heures du Mans?, No. 07/24, case No. 436252, Ref. K22362. Very fine and rare, oversized and heavy, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, 24 hour dial, slide-rule, date and an 18K yellow gold Breitling link bracelet with deployant clasp. C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner revolving slide-rule graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the ?Speed 8 Bentley? logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color, black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost slide-rule graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 22, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.
C. Breitling for Bentley, "24 Heures du Mans?, No. 24/24, case No. 528833, Ref. K22362. Very fine and rare, oversized and heavy, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, 24 hour dial, slide-rule, date and an 18K yellow gold Breitling link bracelet with deployant clasp. C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner revolving slide-rule graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the ?Speed 8 Bentley? logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color, gray and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost slide-rule graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 22, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.