Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 17

BREITLING REF. A19340 NAVITIMER ANNUAL CALENDAR STEEL Breitling, Genève, "Navitimer Chronograph-Certified Chronometer," case No. 588124, Ref. A 19340. Sold on October 19th, 2004. Fine and very rare, large, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, Steel Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter and tachometer, annual calendar with moon phases, slide rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation and a stainless steel Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, warranty, Chronometer attestation, instruction booklet and setting pin.

Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving ribbed bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back with embossed Breitling logo, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black and white with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, sunk guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, month, aperture for the moon phases at 3, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer, slide- rule on an inclined silvered reserve revolving with the bezel. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 19, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.