100 Years of Wristwatches

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 19, 2000

LOT 211

Breitling produced different types of 'cloisonné' enamel dials, under the reference 1216/19: the present coat-of-arms ,a card player and the portrait of a Saint.Universal Genève, No. 1666780, circa 1954.Fine center seconds, 18K pink gold and cloisonné enamel gentleman's wristwatch with date.

C. two-body, solid, polished, screw-down case back, concave lugs. D. in polychrome cloisonné enamelrepresenting the Arabian Peninsula, surrounded by a pink gold plain reserve with dedication in Arabic characters,aperture for the date. 'Dauphine' radium-coated pink gold hands. M. Cal. 138C, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, leverescapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.Case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.