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Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 25, 2002

LOT 16

Breitling Genève, "Navitimer Chrono-Matic", Ref. 1806, Pat. No 11525/67. Produced in the 1970's. Fine, large, octagonal, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and date, with the winding-crown on the 9 and the chronograph pushers on the 2 and on the 4.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, revolving reeded and graduated black and white bezel, screwed-down case back with logo, lapidated lugs. D. black and "guilloché" matte silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer graduations for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide-rule, and the 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date in red Arabic numerals. "Bâton" tritium-coated white hands. M. Cal. 12, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, microrotor housed in the basic movement. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm.