Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 81

Breitling - Steel - Navitimer World Breitling, Genève, ?Navitimer, Chonograph, Chronometer,? No. 2018110, Ref. A 24322. Made in 2007. Fine and rare, two time zone, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with date, 24-hour hand, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, slide rule and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Chronometer Certificate and instruction booklets. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished, bidirectional revolving notched bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back with Breitling logo and engraved 24 locations around the world, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied gold baton indexes, silver guilloche sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the 24 hours, telemeter, tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date. Luminous steel baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped "B" counterweight. M. Cal. 24, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 16 mm.