Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 219

BREITLING, REF. 790 - PREMIER ANTIMAGNETIC CHRONOGRAPH ? PINK GOLD ? BLACK DIAL Breitling, Genève, Premier, case No. 840621, Ref. 790. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, water-resistant, antimagnetic, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped inclined bezel, screw-down case back, concave lugs, Faraday iron cage around the movement.. D. Black with applied pink gold faceted baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer scale to 1000 KMH, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute registers. Pink gold dauphine hands. M. 13???, brushed copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm