Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 260

BREITLING - YELLOW GOLD NAVITIMER 1884 - CHRONO Breitling, Genève, ?Navitimer 1884,? No. 137, Ref. K30021. Made in circa 2002. Fine, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, slide rule and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bidirectional revolving notched bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back with Breitling logo, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor midnight-blue and silver with luminous Arabic numerals, silver guilloche sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the telemeter and slide-rule. Luminous gold baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped "B" counterweight. M. Cal. 24, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.