Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 251

Breitling - Pink Gold - Limited Edition - Navitimer - Split-Second Chrono Breitling "Navitimer Rattrapante Etanche," No. 12/100, Ref. H 34030. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces in 1996. Fine and rare, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with split-second round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, date and slide-rule with no less than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942), with an 18K pink gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

USD 5,000 - 8,000

CHF 5,000 - 8,000 / EUR 3,600 - 5,800

Sold: USD 7,500

c. Three-body, polished, reeded bidirectional revolving graduated bezel, faceted lugs, screwed-down case back embossed with the Navitimer logo, sapphire crystal. d. Bicolor dark blue and matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and square indexes, luminous dots, guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and the 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the telemeter and the slide-rule, date aperture between 4 and 5. Luminous pink gold baton hands, the main chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight and the fly-back hand is a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 34, 11 1/2???, rhodium-plated, 39 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original