Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 15, 2005

LOT 162

"Montbrillant" Breitling, "Montbrillant", Certified Chronometer, "Special Edition 100 Years Aviation 1903-2003", Automatic, No 072/100. Made in a limited edition of 100 examples in 2003. Fine and rare, large, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, tachometer, date and slide-rule with no less than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942). Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down dedicated case back,sapphire crystal. D. Black and matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, "guilloché" sunk subsidiary dials for the secondsand the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous pinkgold "bâton" hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight and a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensatingflat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.