Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 196

BREITLING SPLIT-SECONDS YELLOW GOLD QUARTZ Chrono Breitling, Chronograph Rattrapante, "J Class," No. 098, Ref. K 53067. Made in the 1990s. Fine, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold quartz wristwatch with split-seconds round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel, screwed-down case back and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous Arabic 12 and indexes, outer 60 minute and 100 seconds graduation, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 10-minute registers, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands, the chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped and a Breitling "B" counterpoise. M. Cal. 73 with quartz standardization. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm.