Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 122

BREITLING UNITIME STEEL Breitling, Genève, case No. 710292, Ref. 1-260. "Unitime Automatic." Made circa 1950. Fine and unusual, stainless steel, self-winding, center seconds, 24-hour "World Time" wristwatch with date and a stainless steel mesh bracelet with buckle. Accompanied by a box.

Three-body, polished and brushed, bi-directional revolving reeded bezel bearing the names of 24 cities around the world, lapidated lugs. Bicolor matte silver and black with an outer 24-hour revolving ring dial in silver and black with painted Arabic numerals for the nocturnal and diurnal hours, concentric, applied baton indexes, at the center, the maps of South America, Africa, part of North America, Europe and the Middle East, aperture for the date on the 3. Steel dauphine hands. Cal. 260, copper-colored, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed.