Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 253

Breitling - Navitimer - Chrono Breitling, Genève, Navitimer, case No.1011413, Ref. 806. Made in the 1970s. Fine, large, gold-plated and stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter, slide-rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, stainless steel back. d. Bi-color black and silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the telemeter, outermost silver scale for the slide-rule revolving with the bezel. Luminous gilt baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 13 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector