Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 136

BREITLING TRIPLE DATE, CHRONOGRAPH, YELLOW GOLD Breitling Genève. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with oval-shaped button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, transparent case back, fl uted band and lugs. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic 12, round indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track and graduation for the date, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minutes and 12-hour registers, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold and black baton hands, black arrow for the date. M. Cal. 88, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance spring. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.