Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 195

BREITLING REF. A13050 STEEL ?BLACKBIRD? CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC Breitling, "Blackbird," Special Series, Automatic, Chronograph, case No. 36739, Ref. A13050. 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 buckle on a Breitling rubber strap. 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. Black with applied luminous baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 3. Luminous white 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.