Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 268

Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors","Speed 8", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. 0166/1000, case No. 481115. Produced in a limited edition of 1000 examples in 2003 to commemorate Bentley?s participation in the 24 Hour Le Mans races and to celebrate its cooperation with Breitling. Fine and rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 m, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, slide-rule, date, 24 hour dial and a stainless steel Breitling buckle.

C. Three-body, polished, bi-directional rotating steel bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with Bentley logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Copper-colored with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, aperture for the date. Luminous steel "bâton" hands, hour hand revolving once in 24 hours. M. Ca. 2892A2, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 49 mm.