Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 93

BREITLING ? POCKET CHRONOSLIDE Breitling, Chronoslide, Swiss, No. 1192081, Ref. 1577 2/5. Made for timing and calculating. Sold on July 18, 1972. Fine and rare, nickel chromium one-minute flyback stopwatch with 30-minute register, inner bidirectional bezel for calculations and slide for stopping. Accompanied by original fitted box, instruction booklet and guarantee. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, ?bassine?, polished, button at 12 for start/ reset, slide at 11 for stopping. D. Black, concentric seconds and fi fths of a second tracks with white Arabic numerals, subsidiary 30-minute register, inner bezel silver with black Arabic numerals and divisions, including ϖ, for calculating. White and black hands. M. Cal. 320, 7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, high frequency monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 59 mm.