Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 39

BREITLING FOR BENTLEY REF. A44364 CHRONOGRAPH "BENTLEY 6.75" STEEL Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley 6.75 Chronograph," Officially Certified Chronometer, case No. 2402177, Ref. A44364. Made in 2010 to celebrate the hand-assembled, 6.75 liter Bentley Limousine engine. Fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide rule and a stainless steel Breitling buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Warranty, Chronometer certificate, pouch and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bi-directional rotating bezel with inner tachometer calibration graduation, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the "Bentley wheel" logo, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. Bi-color brown and matte silver with applied steel baton and luminous square indexes, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outer tachometer and slide rule graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, aperture for the date at 12. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 44B, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.