Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 310

BREITLING REF. 809 NAVITIMER COSMONAUT Breitling, Genève, Cosmonaut, Navitimer, case No. 1091380, Ref. 809. Made in the 1970's. Fine, large, stainless steel wristwatch with 24-hour dial, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter and slide-rule.

C. Three-body, polished, bidirectional revolving reeded and graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Bicolor black and silver with luminous Arabic 24-hour numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer graduation for the telemeter, outermost silver scale for the slide-rule revolving with the bezel. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 178, copper color, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, blued steel fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.