Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 193

BREITLING STEEL CHRONOMAT Breitling, "Chronomat," case No. 16050.1, Ref. 34593. Made in the 1990?s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Breitling tubular link bracelet with concealed double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down protected winding-crown, screwed-down case back with embossed logo, unidirectional revolving bezel with engraved minute graduation and quarter-hour riders, sapphire crystal. D. Blue and silver with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. based Valjoux 7750, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 195 mm.