Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 256

Breitling - Pink Gold - Chronograph - Moon Phases Breitling, Genève, "Chronograph Moon Phases," case No. 130001. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with rectangular button chronograph, registers, date, moon phase and an 18K pink gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel and lugs. d. Two-tone, matte silver with applied pink gold pyramid indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minut/seconds Arabic markers, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers and the date, aperture for the moon phases. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 13???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector