Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 38

BREITLING FOR BENTLEY REF. A25363 CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors - 30-Seconds Chronograph," Officially Certified Chronometer, Ref. A 25363, case No. 2266494. Made in a special edition in 2003 to commemorate Bentley's participation in the "24 Hours of Le Mans" races and to celebrate its collaboration with Breitling. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule and a stainless steel Breitling link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Warranty, Chronometer certificate, hang tag, 2 extra links and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished, bi-directional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Image of three Bentley Automobiles, helium escape valve, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with tapered steel indexes and luminous square dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer and revolving slide-rule graduations, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 25, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance- spring, micrometer regulator.