Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 56

Breitling for Bentley Flying B Chronograph Breitling for Bentley, "Flying B Chronograph Certified Chronometer", No. 2289946, Ref. R44365. Made in 2007. Very fine, oversized, rectangular, self-winding, water-resistant, 18k pink gold chronometer wristwatch with chronograph, registers, date and an 18k pink gold Breitling deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, polished and matte, screwed-down winding crown, case back with 8 screws and embossed with the Bentley logo, lapidated lugs, curved anti-reflective sapphire crystal. D. Brown, textured "Silver Storm" plate with applied stainless steel and mother-of-pearl baton indexes, inner minute divisions, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date below 12. Luminous pink gold sword hands. M. Cal. 44B, certified by the COSC, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 58 mm. Thickness 17 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.