Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 242

BREITLING REF. 1806, NAVITIMER Breitling Genève, "Navitimer Chrono-Matic," Ref. 1806. No. 1256709. Made in the 1970's. Fine and large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide rule and date, winding crown at 9 and the chronograph pushbuttons at 2 and 4 o'clock with a stainless steel bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Three-body, polished, nudged black bezel, screwed-down case back, lapidated lugs. Bicolor black and silver with painted luminous baton and Arabic numeral idexes, subsidiary 30-minute and 12-hour register dials, outer graduation for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide rule, aperture for the date. Luminous baton hands. Cal. 11, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, steel flat balance spring, micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.