Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Nov 27, 2016
BREGUET TYPE XX CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Breguet, Swiss. Case Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare stainless steel fly-back chronograph wristwatch with 15 minute registers, bi-directional rotating bezel calibrated to 60 minutes. Accompanied by a letter from Breguet and dcoument from Gubelin confirming service by the manufacturer in early 2006.
Three body, polished, screw-down back, grid-pattern crown, bi-directional revolving black bezel, round chronograph pushers, faceted lugs. Matte black with luminous Arabic numerals, outer seconds track with 5 minute block indexes, subsidiary dials for oversize 15 minute register and running seconds. Luminous white baton hands and oversize luminous 15 minute hand. Cal. Valjoux 235, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.