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Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 182

Breitling, Genève, "Cosmonaute", Certified Chronometer, Ref. A 12322. Made in 2000. Fine, water-resistant to 30 m, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by a certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, case back engraved with an equivalence scale for Celsius and Fahrenheit, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor black and silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes in 24 hours, subsidiary ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the slide-rule and the telemeter. Tritium-coated steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 178, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, blued steel flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.