Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 101

?30-Seconds Chronograph" Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors - 30-Seconds Chronograph", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. K 25362, case No. 713907. 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. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Fine and rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date, slide-rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bi-directional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley logo, helium escape valve, lapidated lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color black and matte silver with yellow gold 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 yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 25, rhodium plated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm.