Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 57

Breitling Pink Gold Montbrillant 1903 Breitling, ?Chronometre Certifie, Edition Special, 100 Aviation, Automatic", No. 009/100, case No. 422648, Ref. H35330. Made in a limited series of 100 examples in 2003 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first flight. Fine and rare, large, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942) and an 18K pink gold Breitling buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, chronometer certificate, warranty (now void), certificate and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving reeded slide-rule bezel, lapidated lugs, screweddown dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, guilloché sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the tachometer and the slide rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous pink gold baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight and a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.