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LOT 393

Breitling, Genève, "Chronomat", Ref. 1808. Produced circa 1969.Fine and very large, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, register, telemeter and slide rule.

C. three-body, polished, screwed-down case back, black revolving reeded bezel, lapidated lugs. D. black and "guilloché" silver with applied steel and tritium indexes, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer graduation for the tachometer, telemeter, the slide-rule and the decimal scale. "Bâton" tritium-coated hands. M. Cal. 11, with switching wheel, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case, and movement signed.Diam. 49 mm.