Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 19, 2012

LOT 12

BREITLING REF.1809 COSMONAUTE CHRONO-MATIC STEEL Breitling, Genève, Cosmonaute Chrono-Matic, Ref. 1809. Made in the 1970's. Fine and large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and date, winding crown at 9 and the chronograph push-buttons at 2 and 4 o'clock with a stainless steel Breitling bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished, nudged black bezel, screw down case back, lapidated lugs. D. Black and silver with painted luminous Arabic numerals in 24 hour graduation, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer graduation for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide-rule, aperture for the date. Luminous red hands. M. Cal.14, gilt-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Approx. overall length 175 mm. Diam. 49 mm. Thickness 15 mm