Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 182

"Bentley - Chronograph Chronometer" Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley Motors ? Chronograph", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. 06/10, case No. 699479, Ref. K 13362. Made in a limited edition of 10 pieces 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. Very fine and extremely rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and diamond gentleman's wristwatch with round button 30-second chronograph, registers, tachometer, day and date, slide-rule and an 18K yellow gold and diamonds Breitling bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bidirectional rotating bezel to operate the slide-rule, screwed-down case back and crown, case back embossed with the Bentley logo, lapidated lugs pavé-set with round diamonds, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor matte silver and champagne with diamond-set white 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 day and date. Luminous yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, 25 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.