Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 220

Breitling Navitimer Breitling, Genève, "Navitimer," Ref. 816. Made in the 1970s. Fine and unusual, large, octagonal, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, revolving graduated bezel, screw-down case back, lapidated lugs. D. Black with luminous baton indexes and 12 numeral, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer slide-rule, aperture for the date. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. Venus 178, copper colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 14 mm.