Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 3

"Chronomat" Breitling, Genève, Chronomat, Ref. 769. Made in the 1960s. Fine, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, telemeter and sliderule.

C. Three-body, polished, bi-directional revolving ridged bezel and inner graduated silvered ring dial, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with applied faceted steel bâton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45-minute register, outer graduation for the telemeter and the slide-rule, concentric telemeter scale in red, 1/5th seconds chronograph scale with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals. Steel "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 14''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.