Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 252

Breitling Navitimer Breitling, 1884, ?Navitimer,? case No. 0001, Ref. D33030. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, slide rule and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, facetted lugs, yellow gold reeded revolving bezel for the slide rule, screweddown case back engraved with the Breitling logo. D. Two-tone, blue and silver, luminous Arabic numerals and dot indexes, outer graduation for the minutes/seconds and 1/5th seconds, outermost graduations for the slide rule and the tachometer in MPH, subsidiary dials for seconds, 10 minutes and 3 hour registers and date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. 13''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance spring, shock absorber, micrometric regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.