Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 20

BREITLING, REF. H 34030 LIMITED EDITION NAVITIMER SPLIT SECOND CHRONO YELLOW GOLD Breitling "Navitimer Rattrapante Etanche," No. 18 / 100, Ref. H 34030. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces in 1996. Fine and rare, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with split-second round button chronograph, registers, telemeter, date, slide-rule with no less than 10 calculator functions for navigation and an 18K yellow gold Breitling deployant clasp. Accompanied by a spare strap with gold-plated buckle.

Three-body, polished, reeded bidirectional revolving graduated bezel, lapidated lugs, screwed-down case back embossed with the Navitimer logo, sapphire crystal. Bicolor dark blue and matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and square indexes, luminous dots, guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and the 30-minute registers, outer graduations for the telemeter and the slide-rule, date aperture between 4 and 5. Luminous yellow gold baton hands, the main chronograph hand featuring an anchor-shaped counterWEIGHT and the fly-back hand is a Breitling "B". Cal. 34, rhodium-plated, 39 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock absorber, self-compensating f at balance spring, 18K gold rotor.