Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 257

Breitling - Pink Gold - Chronograph Breitling, Shock Protected. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter and an 18K pink Gold Cartier deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. d. Two-tone matte silver with painted fancy Arabic numerals, 1/5th seconds/minute track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, outer red telemeter scale and blue tachometer scale, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register. Blued steel epee hands. M. Cal. Venus 170, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of an East Coast Collector