Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 126

"Bentley 6.75" Breitling, Genève, for "Bentley 6.75 second Chronograph", Officially Certified Chronometer, No. A 44362, case No. 2015847. Made to celebrate the hand-assembled, 6.75 litre Bentley Arnage Limousine engine. Fine and rare, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel ?Speed? Breitling bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, 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. D. Bi-color blue and matte silver with stainless steel baton and luminous square indexes, minute and 1/4th seconds divisions, outer tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12- hour registers, aperture for the ?quantième à grands guichets? date. Luminous stainless steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 44B, 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. 49 mm. Thickness 17.5 mm.