Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 460

Breitling Cockpit Limited Edition Japan Breitling, 1884, ?Cockpit?, No. 10-118/ 250, Ref. A33012. Made in limited series of 250 examples for the Japanese market in the 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch, round button chronograph, registers, date, tachomemeter and a stainless steel Breitling link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, certificate, Instruction booklet and booklets. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed down winding-crown, screwed down case back with embossed logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with 12 screws, engraved minute graduation, steel quarter-hour riders, luminous dot at 12 o'clock, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color, black and silver with applied yellow gold baton, luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 3-hour, 10-minute registers and for the date, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal 33, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Approx overall length 170 mm.