Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 177

BREITLING ? COSMONAUT ? NAVITIMER Breitling, Genève, Cosmonaut, Navitimer, case No. 1091380, Ref. 809. Made in the 1970's. Fine, large, stainless steel wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter and slide-rule.

C. Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Bicolor black and silver with luminous Arabic 24-hour numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the telemeter, outermost silver scale for the slide-rule revolving with the bezel. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper color, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.