Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 175

BREITLING GENEVE REF. 1808 CHRONOMAT STEEL Breitling Genève, Chronomat, automatic, case No. 11525/67. Ref. 1808. made circa 1970's. Fine and oversized, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, register, telemeter with a Breitling stainless steel buckle.

Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back, revolving reeded bezel, lapidated lugs. Black and guilloche silver with applied steel and luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer graduation for tachometer, telemeter, the slide rule and decimal scale, aperture for the date. "Bâton" red tritium-coated hands. Cal. 11, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat baance-spring.