Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 138

BREITLING REF. 788 CHRONOGRAPH, PINK GOLD Breitling, Genève, Premier, case No. 667059, Ref. 788. Made in the 1950's. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw down case back, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale to 1000 UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous blued steel baton hands. M. 13???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.