Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 279

"Montbrillant" Breitling, Certified Chronometer, "Special Edition 100 Years Aviation 1903-2003", Automatic, No 704077. Made in 2003. Fine and rare, large, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, tachometer, date and slide-rule with no fewer than 10 calculator functions for navigation (first introduced by Breitling in 1942). Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, revolving ribbed and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down dedicated case back, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver and black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, "guilloché" sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 10-minute register, outer graduations for the telemeter, tachometer and the slide-rule, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel "bâton" hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterweight and a Breitling "B". M. Cal. 35, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.