Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 199

BREITLING FOR BENTLEY PLATINUM MULLINER CHRONOGRAPH WITH TOURBILLON Breitling, Genève, for ?Bentley Motors - Mulliner Tourbillon, Officially Certified Chronometer,? movement No. 1884B051, Ref. L18841. Made in very few pieces only. Production of this model started in 2005. Extremely fine, rare and unusual, heavy, oversized, water-resistant, platinum chronometer wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button 30-second chronograph, register, tachometer, date, slide-rule and an 18K white gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original special fitted wooden box, COSC certificate, setting pin, guarantee and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bidirectional revolving reeded bezel to operate the slide-rule, lapidated lugs, transparent screwed-down case back with burl wood veneer ring, screwed-down crown, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied mother-of-pearl inlaid white gold indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the date and the 15-minute register, outer 1/6th seconds and tachometer graduations, outermost revolving white slide-rule, aperture for the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator under a hobnail-decorated bridge. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 18B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.