Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 218

BREITLING REF. K13352 CHRONOGRAPH CHRONOMETER YELLOW GOLD Breitling, "Chronograph Chronometer Automatic," No. 122, case No. 268706, Ref. K13352. Sold August 11th, 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date. Accompanied by the original Breitling box, certificate and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, graduated unidirectional revolving bezel with yellow gold screw markers and quarter rider tabs, concave lugs, embossed screwed-down case back, screwed down protected winding-crown, sapphire crystal. Midnight blue with applied yellow gold baton indexes, luminous dots, blue and gold subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds division, outermost tachometer scale, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 13, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.