Important Watches, Collector's Wrist...

Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 457

Breitling Genève, "Navitimer Chrono-Matic", Ref. 8806. Produced in circa 1973.Fine and rare, large, self-winding, stainless steel and gold-plated, gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide-rule and date, bearing the winding-crown on the 9 and the chronograph pushers on the 2 and on the 4.

C. three-body, bicolored, polished and brushed, revolving reeded and graduated matte silver bezel, steel pressure case back, gold-plated lapidated lugs and case. D. black and "guilloché" matte silver with tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer graduations for the minutes, the telemeter and the slide-rule. "Bâton" tritium-coated white hands. M. Cal. 12 Automatic, 14 1/2 ''' rhodium-plated and gilt brass, 17 jewels, lver escapement, monometallic balance shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, microrotor housed in the basic movement.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm.