Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 490

BREITLING REF. J 44362 FOR BENTLEY - WHITE GOLD - LIMITED EDITION OF 50 PIECES ? NO. 02 Breitling for Bentley, "Bentley 6.75 Chronograph," No. 02/50, Ref. J 44362. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in white gold in 2006 to celebrate the hand-assembled 6.75 liter Bentley Arnage Limousine engine. Very fine and rare, oversized and heavy, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, variable tachometer sliderule, large date and an 18K white gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, hang-tag, Chronometer Certificate, Certificate of Limited Series and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner variable tachometer slide-rule graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley wheel logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color bronze and silver with applied white gold baton and luminous square indexes, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outer variable tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, double aperture for the large date. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 44 B, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 17 mm.