Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 254

Breitling - Yellow Gold - Triple Date & Moon - Chrono Breitling Genève, No. 1940. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with oval-shaped button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, stepped lugs. d. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Roman Numeral and dart indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track and graduation for the date, subsidiary seconds and 30-minutes register dials, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 12 1/2 ''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector