Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 37

Breitling, ?Chronomat Automatic?, Ref. 1808. Produced circa 1969. Fine and very large, stainless steel gentleman?s wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, register, telemeter and slide rule.

C. three-body, polished, screwed-down case back, revolving reeded bezel, lapidated lugs. Engraving back ?21-XII-70?. D. matte silver and black ?guilloché? with applied steel and tritium-coated indexes, auxiliary minutes and 12 hours register dials, outer graduation for tachometer, telemeter, the slide rule and decimal scale, aperture for the date. ?Bâton? red tritium-coated hands. M. Cal. 11, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm.